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The Bednall Archive
Death
of Mr Badnall.....Derbyshire has lost a resident deservedly honoured in the
death of Mr W. Beaumont Badnall of Thorpe....magistrate and member of Derby
County Council....[To be completed]
Derbyshire Advertiser October 7th 1901
Joseph
Badnall, Silk Dyer, of Leek, Staffordshire
1785 to 1830
At Leek on Thursday morning the 13th instant [12 October 1830] Mr. Joseph Badnall, silk dyer, aged 48, died. His death was awfully sudden; having retired to rest in his usual good health and spirits on the previous evening and before 5 o'clock in the morning he was a corpse.
He was an man of extensive information, his knowledge of chemistry deep and general, his conduct through life marked by unostentatious benevolence and sterling integrity. He was emphatically "the poor man's friend" and the blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon him. As a master he was almost idolised by his employees: few employers have paid the attention to the comforts and prosperity of their men which Mr. Badnall did, even in their minutest concerns; by the incitement he gave to the industrious and economical and by his management of their savings, several of his men have not only purchased their comfortable dwellings but have stored up some £100 against decrepitude.
As
a man his intelligence and social virtue rendered him greatly esteemed and his
philanthropic and unbending integrity have justly excited that general regret
for his loss which so strongly pervades all classes of society in the
town. Correspondent.
Staffordshire
Advertiser 16th October 1830
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