Sir David Dale. Inaugural address delivered for the Dale Memorial Trust to which is prefixed a memoir by Howard Pease

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Biographical sketch, the address being by Sir Edward Grey, the senior politician. The memoir by Howard Pease contains an outline of his business career. Sir David Dale, 1829-1906, was great nephew of David Dale of New Lanark Mills and son of a Glasgow businessman. Settled in the North East in 1846 as Clerk of Wear Valley Railway Co, soon moving to the Stockton & Darlington Railway Co. Soon after joined William Bouch as a partner in Shildon Locomotive Works and rose to be an influential director of the North Eastern Railway Co. From 1858 involved with the Consett Iron Works of which he was chairman, 1884-1906. From 1872 in partnership with Sir Joseph Pease and became important in the management of the Pease family's coal, limestone and ironstone extraction activities