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Midland Malting Company Ltd.

  • Corporate body
  • 1968 - 1997 (/2005)

The whiskey production involved its own malting facilities within the distillery. D. E. Williams Ltd. started supplying malt in the 1950s. Together with F. A. Waller & Co. Ltd. the malting plants in Banagher were build. The Midlands Malting Co. Ltd. was incorporated in 1968. The Williams Group held 51% of the shares.
The barley was purchased via Williams-Waller Ltd. - seed fertiliser and grain merchants founded in 1975 in corporation with F. A. Waller. Suppliers were ca. 4000 local farmers.
The company supplied Guinness and additionally exported malt via Irish Malt Exports Ltd. (the Williams Group held 16% of their shares).
Greencore acquired the Williams Group in 1996 and hence the Midlands Malting Co. Ltd.. The closure of the Maltings was announced in 2005.

Mills, Anne

  • Person
  • d. 12 Aug 1875

Anne Mills married Charles Achmuty Mills of Enniskillen, and was the niece of Margaret Lamb. She died at her aunts home at 37 Clarinda Mount, Kingstown [Dun Laoghaire], County Dublin, on 12 August 1875.

Minchin, George Minchin

  • Person
  • 25 May 1845 - 23 Mar 1914

George Minchin Minchin was born at Valentia Island, County Kerry, on 25 May 1845. He moved to Dublin in 1854 following the death of his mother, to better his education under the influence of his uncle-in-law, David Bell, a Shakespearean scholar and schoolmaster. In January of 1862, he attended Trinity College Dublin, with Doctor Shaw as a tutor, where he received multiple scholarships and awards through his skill in mathematics and physics. In the spring of 1875 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill. Over the course of his career he wrote many books: A Treatise on Statics, with Application to Physics (1884), Naturae Veritas (1887), A Treatise on Hydrostatics (1890), Hydrostatics and Elementary Hydrokinetics (1892), Uniplanar Kinematics of Solids and Fluids: With Applications to the Distribution and Flow of Electricity (1892), The Student’s Dynamics, Comprising Statics and Kinetics (1900), Mathewatical Drawing (1906). In 1895 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. On 30 June 1856, George Minchin married Emma Sophia Fawcett at the parish church, Great Marlow. They had two children, George Robert Neville Minchin in 1889, and Una E Minchin in 1890. George Minchin Minchin died 23 March 1914, at 149 Banbury Road, Summertown, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, and was buried at Oxford.

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