James Aldren McNaught (1828-1915) of McNaught and Co (formerly of Kinder, McNaught and Smith and McNaught and Smith)
1828 Born in Kendal
'Mr.J. A. McNaught, was for over half a century actively connected with the business life of the City of Worcester. He was born in Kendal, in Westmorland in 1828, his father being a coachbuilder who had a business there in the days when the road coaches were the swiftest form of travel. Mr. McNaught was appointed to a Liverpool firm and after gaining experience in Edinburgh, he went south for health reasons. He spent a few years with Messrs. Wyburn & Co. of Longacre, and when there was responsible for the design of the prize chariot of the Great Exhibition of 1851. He came to Worcester in 1856 and went into partnership with Mr. Kinder, who carried on business as a coachbuilder in the Tything. When Mr. Kinder retired from the business his place was taken by Mr. Thomas Lamb Smith, a well known Worcester man, and on his death a cousin of Mr. McNaught's, Mr. J. B. Aldren, became associated with him.'[1]
President of the Institute of British Carriage Makers