Lloyd Higginbottom
Lloyd Higginbottom (1850-1923) of Higginbottom and Mannock
1900 'MANCHESTER SENSATION. LORD MAYOR-ELECT RESIGNS. The allegations against Ald. Lloyd Higginbottom, Lord Mayor-elect of Manchester, have had dramatic conclusion. The City Council met Monday to consider the report of the committee appointed to investigate the charges, but before the report was received the Town Clerk read letter from Ald. Higginbottom, resigning bis office, relinquishing the position of Lord Mayor-elect, and enclosing his cheque for £50, the penalty imposed upon aldermen who retire during their term of service. The resignation was accepted without comment. The position with which the Council were confronted was forced upon them by the action of Mr. Norbury Williams, one the elective auditors, who accused Aid. Higginbottom, chairman of the Electricity Committee, and also head of the firm of Higginbottom and Mannock, executing sub-contracts for the Corporation, and also executing contracts in the name of another firm. The committee reported that the Alderman's conduct had been altogether improper, and such as they could not justify.' [1]
1900 THE LORD MAYOR-ELECT RESIGNS. A special meeting of the Manchester City Council was held on Monday to consider the report of the Special Committee appointed to inquire into the allegations made against Ald. Lloyd Higginbottom, in regard to contracts with the Electrcity Committee, of which he has been chairman. At the opening of the meeting a letter was read from Ald. Higginbottom, in which he resigned the office of alderman of Manchester, and also the position of Lord Mayor-Elect, to which the members of the Council had invited him, and which he had accepted. ...'[2]
1923 Obituary [3]
LLOYD HIGGINBOTTOM was born in Manchester in 1850, and was educated at a school in Yorkshire and at Owens College.
After serving an apprenticeship with Messrs. Wren and Hopkinson, consulting engineers, of Manchester, he took over the management of the Birmingham Plate Glass Works until 1878, when he joined Mr. Thomas Mannock in partnership as general engineers and millwrights at the Crown Iron Works, West Gorton.
In 1889 they commenced the manufacture of electric cranes.
In the following year Mr. Higginbottom was elected a Member of the Manchester City Council, and subsequently became an Alderman. He also acted as Chairman of the Electricity Committee until his retirement [see above!] from the Council in 1900.
His death took place at Heaton Moor, Stockport, on 7th March 1923, in his seventy-third year.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1894.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Worcestershire Chronicle - Saturday 10 November 1900
- ↑ Southampton Observer and Hampshire News - Saturday 10 November 1900
- ↑ 1923 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries