- Mayor
- Bolton: 1884-87 (Conservative)
- Born
- Little Lever 1832
- Died
- 101 Bury New Road, Bolton 20 October 1914
- About
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Colliery owner, bleacher and spinner. Proprietor of Springside Mill, Little Lever.
Represented Church Ward 1875-83. Alderman for Derby Ward from 1883.
Son of Thomas Fletcher, First Chairman of Little Lever Local Board and brother of Matthew Fletcher, Chairman of Little Lever Local Board 1893-95 and Chairman of Little Lever Urban District Council 1895-96.
He called in the Militia to deal with the 1887 engineers strike. He issued a proclamation regretting the scenes of lawlessness during the strike on 1 July 1887.
On 21 December 1887 he was presented with a casket of Queen's Jubilee coins and medals by '70 of the leading gentlemen of the town' in recognition of his services to the Borough as Mayor.
In August 1906 he appeared in court for a bankruptcy hearing and for trading insolvently. He had lost a personal fortune (which had stood at £103,000 in 1885) through speculative trading on the stock market and by taking on crippling loans to cover his losses.
His wife died in 1873 so his daughter, Esther Ella Fletcher, was Mayoress.
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