User:LittleDwangs/sandbox4
William Pare | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 August 1805 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 18 June 1873 (aged 67) Croydon, Surrey, England |
| Movement | Co-operative |
| Spouse | Ann Oakes |
| Children | 3 |
William Pare (11 August 1805 – 18 June 1873) was a British co-operator and Owenite.
Biography[edit]
Pare was born 11 August 1805 in Birmingham, England, to cabinetmaker and upholsterer John Pare. He was his father's apprentice before opening a tobacco store on New Street, Birmingham.[1] Pare was a convert to Owenism and co-operation after reading William Thompson's An Inquiry into Principles of the Distribution of Wealth Most Conducive to Human Happiness. In 1828 he was a founding member of the first Birmingham Co-operative Society. From 1829-1820 he edited the Birmingham Co-operative Herald.
From 1842 to 1844 Pare served as governor of the Owenite Harmony Hall community in Queenwood, Hampshire. In 1844 he move to London and began working as a railway statistician. In 1846 he moved to Dublin where he managed an ironworks.[2]
Upon Robert Owen's death Pare acted as his literary executor.
He was a contributor to Henry Pitman's Co-operator.
In 1866 he moved back to London.
In 1855 he became a fellow of the Statistical Society.
Pare died 18 June 1873 in Croydon, Surrey, following a long illness. He was buried in Shirley Churchyard.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Murphy, David (2009-10-01), "Pare, William", Dictionary of Irish Biography, Royal Irish Academy, doi:10.3318/dib.007181.v1, retrieved 2022-10-24
- ^ a b c Saville, John (1972). Bellamy, Joyce M.; Saville, John (eds.). Dictionary of Labour Biography. Internet Archive. London: Macmillan. pp. 260–263. ISBN 978-0-333-42757-6.
- ^ "Pare, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21262. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)