Frederick Rushbrooke
British businessman1
Frederick William Rushbrooke (9 December 1861 - 1953) was the founder of Halfords, the United Kingdom's largest chain of cycle shops.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Frederick Rushbrooke (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Dec 9, 1861, died 1953.1
Companies
Career
Occupation: businessperson.4
The son of a miller and confectioner from Willenhall in Staffordshire, Frederick Rushbrooke initially established himself in business in 1892 as a wholesale ironmonger in Birmingham. For recreation he enjoyed cycling on his pennyfarthing. In 1902 he opened a branch of his business in Halford Street in Leicester and called it the Halford Cycle Shop.
He bought Burcot Grange, a country house in Burcot in 1927 but ten years later decided to donate it to the Birmingham & Midland Eye Hospital as an annex to treat inflammation of the eye.
He died in 1953.
From Wikipedia’s article on Frederick Rushbrooke (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Personal life
- CitizenshipUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom5
In 1896 he married Lily Jenks Wilkinson and they had a son and two daughters.
From Wikipedia’s article on Frederick Rushbrooke (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Links
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataFrederick Rushbrooke on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaFrederick Rushbrooke on Wikipedia
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6WikidataHalfords, Founder