Peel, Yates and Co
1772 Robert Peel (1723-1795) gave his son, Robert Peel (1750-1830), £500 to start a business on his own account. In partnership with William Yates and his uncle Jonathan Howarth, he established a calico printing works on the Chamber Hall estate at Bury, with spinning mills nearby supplied by hundreds of handloom weavers in the Pennine villages.
1788 the collapse of Livesey, Hargreaves and Co of Preston, largest of the Lancashire calico printers, left Peel, Yates and Co of Bury as undisputed leaders.
1794 Listed as 'Peel, Yates and Co. merchants, manufacturers and printers, 6 Peel Street, Manchester [1]
1797 Listed as 'Peel, Yates and Co. merchants, manufacturers and printers, 6 Peel Street, Manchester [2]
1807 William Yates and John Kay withdrew from the partnership of Peel, Yates and Co, of Bury[3]
1811 James Thomson left the partnership of Peel, Yates, and Co. calico printers, cotton manufacturers, cotton spinners, and merchants. The other partners carried on the business - namely Jonathan Peel, Lawrence Peel, Joseph Peel, John Peel, Thomas Peel, Robert Peel, of Church Bank, Edmund Peel, of London, Robert Peel, of Church-Bridge, Richard Yates, Robert Peel, of Manchester, and John Peel the Younger[4]
1817 Peel, Yates, Haliwell and Co, calico printers, cotton spinners and manufacturers, of Bury, was dissolved, as was the calico printing business at Tamworth of Robert Peel and Co and John Harding and Co[5]