William Hoyle
Born5 November 1831
Rossendale Valley
Died26 February 1886 (1886-02-27) (aged 54)
Southport

William Hoyle (5 November 1831 – 26 February 1886) was a British temperance reformer and vegetarian.

Biography

Hoyle born in Rossendale Valley was the fourth child of poor Methodist parents.[1][2][3] He worked in a mill from the age of eight and was fully employed as a mill worker by the age of thirteen.[3] Several years later he was a full operative, supervising several looms. He became a vegetarian at the age of seventeen for economic and hygienic reasons.[3]

Hoyle became a teetotaller in about 1846.[3] He was a cotton manufacturer at Brooksbottom with his father in 1851. He established his own mill at Tottington in 1859 which employed 500 men by 1877.[3]

Hoyle contributed to the statistical literature of the temperance movement.[4] He authored books and pamphlets on the topic.[3] Hoyle was elected a Fellow of the Statistical Society. Hoyle was an executive member and vice-president of the United Kingdom Alliance.[3] He was the treasurer of the British Temperance League. He married his wife Alice in 1859. They had a son and daughter.[3]

Hoyle was secretary of a local vegetarian society at Crawshawbooth in the 1850s.[3] He contributed to the vegetarian Dietetic Reformer.[3] His pamphlet Food: Its Nature and Adaptability: An Argument for Vegetarian Diet was published in 1864.[4] He was a vice-president of the Vegetarian Society.[5]

Hoyle died at Southport in 1886.[3] Frederic Richard Lees edited and published Hoyle's final work, Wealth and Social Progress which includes a biographical essay of Hoyle.[3]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Bayne, Ronald. (1891). "Hoyle, William". In Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. Smith, Elder & Co. p. 135
  2. ↑ James, Christopher John. (1970). M.P. for Dewsbury: One Hundred Years of Parliamentary Representation. Yorkshire. p. 306. ISBN 978-0950138800
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Blocker, Jack S. Fahey, David M; Tyrrell, Ian R. (2003). Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Enclyopedia, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 302. ISBN 1-57607-833-7
  4. 1 2 Winskill, P. T. (1892). The Temperance Movement and Its Workers, Volume 3. Blackie & Son. p. 216
  5. ↑ Forward, Charles W. (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London: The Ideal Publishing Union. p. 59
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