William Esau Heard

(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.) Heard, William Esau was born at Northam, Devon, in 1835. He came to Newport in 1848, and has been associated with the shipping business of the port without a break for 71 years. He is the managing...

Mark Mordey, Mayor of Newport 1889 - 1890

(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.) Mordey, Mark was born in Newport. He is a son of Mr. W. M. Mordey, of Sunderland, and in early life was apprenticed to the shipwright and shipbuilding trade in the same yard which he, in company w...

Thomas Henry Mordey

(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.) Mordey, Thomas Henry was born in Newport, his father being a native of Sunderland. He commenced business here in 1884, when the firm of Mordey, Jones & Co., shipowners, shipbrokers, coal exporters...

George Francis Colborne

(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.) Colborne, George Francis B.A., has been a member of the Newport Harbour Commissioners since 1892, elected by the miners and workers of coal (Chairman in 1907); and a representative since 1916 of t...

Edward Steer

(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.) Steer, Edward, is a justice of the peace and deputy-lieutenant for the county, and was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1909-10, is the second son of the late Charles Steer, of Stoke Newington, w...

Richard Brook Pugsley

(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.) Pugsley, Richard Brook was born in Appledore, North Devon, in 1852, and came to Newport with his parents at the age of four. He was educated at Robarts' School, Charles street, and afterwards at T...

Frederick Pring Robjent, Mayor of Newport 1914 - 1915

(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.) Robjent, Frederick Pring born in Bristol, where, in 1875, he entered the office of Messrs. Sayce, Jones & Co., an old established firm of stockbrokers. He came to Newport in 1883, and started busi...

John Wyndham Beynon

Beynon, John Wyndham C.B.E., is the only son of the late Mr. Thomas Beynon, J.P., D.L., who was born 2nd December, 1864. His father was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1890-1, and was Mayor of Newport in 1881-2. Educated at Clifton College, and, af...

Swedish Ship 'Vredi' Sunk After Collision With Spanish Ship In Town Dock Reach

From an old photo, around 1900. Written on the reverse: "In the foreground are the dummy hoppers of the Harbour Commissioners. They were used I think in the unloading of the sunken ship. The cargo was then brought to the Tredegar Wharf and unloade...

Mr T H Mordey

Chairman of the Harbour Commissioners 1904-5 president of the Newport Chamber Of Trade 1905-6. Photo from Johns's 1905 Newport Directory.

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