Sir Edmund Vestey, 1st Baronet

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Sir Edmund Vestey
Vestey Brothers
In office
1940 – 18 November 1953
Personal details
Born
Edmund Hoyle Vestey

(1866-02-03)3 February 1866
Rainford, Lancashire, England
Died18 November 1953(1953-11-18) (aged 87)
OccupationFood producer, importer and shipowner

Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 1st Baronet (3 February 1866 – 18 November 1953) was an

Vestey Brothers
.

Early life

Vestey was born in

Liverpool Institute
and then joined his father's firm in 1883.

Career

He was soon given the management of his father's

tramp steamers (Pakeha, renamed Broderick, and Rangatira, renamed Brodmore) for the China trade and converted them into refrigerated ships. This was the beginning of the Blue Star Line, which was registered in 1911. They set up their own cattle ranches in Argentina and Australia.[citation needed
]

The brothers acquired the 3,000-square-kilometre (1,200 sq mi)

Aboriginal Australian workers to be paid in tea, tobacco and other rations. The Vesteys refused to pay their workers in wages, leading to tensions and arguments from the beginning, which continued until the Wave Hill walk-off, a strike beginning in 1967 and lasting eight years.[3]

By 1925 the Blue Star Line was the largest refrigerated fleet in the world. In the United Kingdom the Vestey brothers owned 2,365 butcher's shops. Edmund succeeded William as chairman in 1940 and held the post until his death in 1953.[citation needed]

He was created a

First World War.[4][5]

Personal life

Vestey married Sarah Barker on 15 August 1887; they had seven children.[6] After their divorce, Sarah married Conservative Member of Parliament Sir William Lane-Mitchell.[7] Vestey married Ellen Soward on 10 March 1926, and they remained together until his death in 1953 when he was then aged 87. They had no children.[citation needed] His ashes were buried in Liverpool Cathedral.

Vestey was the maternal great-great-grandfather of actor Tom Hiddleston.

Arms

Coat of arms of Sir Edmund Vestey, 1st Baronet
Crest
In front of a springbok’s head Proper three mullets Argent.
Escutcheon
Argent on a fess between two flaunches Gules each charged with a cross throughout of the field three roses also of the field.
Motto
E Labore Stabilitas [8]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Family tree of Edmund Hoyle Vestey". Geneanet. Geneanet. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  2. ^ Lawford, Elliana; Zillman, Stephanie (18 August 2016). "Timeline: From Wave Hill protest to land handbacks". ABC News. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  3. Victoria Government
    . Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  4. ^ "No. 32346". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1921. p. 4530.
  5. ^ "Sir Edmund Vestey, 1st Baronet". hyperleap.com. Hyperleap. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  6. ^ "John Joseph Vestey". geni_family_tree. Geni.com. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  7. ^ ""Rich" M.P. leaves £518". The Cairns Post. 29 April 1942. p. 3. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  8. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.

References

  • Biography,
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Shirley)
1921–1953 		Succeeded by
Derek Vestey
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