Herman John Falk

Herman John Falk (c1856-1941) of the Meadow Bank Salt Works and Rock Salt Mines

1941 Died. 'The death has taken place at Oxford, at the age of eighty-five, of Mr. Herman John Falk, of Thorshill, West Kirby, for over fifty years a director of the Salt Union, Ltd. A Cheshire man, he was son of the late Herman Eugen Falk, salt manufacturer, who traded under his own name in Liverpool and Cheshire. Educated privately and at Oxford, where he graduated M.A., proceeded to the Bar, though he did not practise as a barrister. He joined the board of the Salt Union its inception 1888, and retired in 1937 when the union was taken over by Imperial Chemical Industries. In the early days he was managing director for the Irish area, and he served some years as deputy-chairman. For a long time he resided in Liverpool, where he was one of the oldest members and a past president of the Athenaeum. Afterwards removed to West Kirby, and also had a London residence, Harley House, Mary-le-Bow. Mr. Falk was a widower. He was twice married; first to Miss Rachel Toynbee, daughter of Dr. Toynbee, aural surgeon to Queen Victoria; and, several years after the death of his first wife, to Miss Spencer, a leading social worker at the Women's Bureau in London, who passed away about three years ago. He is survived by two sons—Mr. Oswald Toynbee Falk, C.B.E., merchant banker, of London and Oxford, and Mr. John Howard Toynbee Falk, who for the past thirty years has resided in Canada and New York, being one of the leading authorities on social work the other side of the Atlantic.'

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