Thomas Ward & Sons Ltd
This company was incorporated in 1925 with £30,000 capital (£21,000 in ordinary shares; and £9,000 in preference shares). The founder was Thomas Watkins Ward (1891-1972), who had been born in Warrington. He was the son of Samuel Thomas Ward (c.1861-1899) – a monumental and stone mason – and his wife, Elizabeth Mary. After Samuel died, aged only 38 (leaving £1,225), his widow continued to live in Warrington. Thomas W. Ward was a milliner in the Census (1911), l....
