The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker! So says the old English nursery rhyme. We’ve had the butcher and now we’ve found a baker and maybe we’ll come across a candlestick maker in our research into the Lodge’s history but first let’s take a look at our millionaire baker.
Bro Frederick William Embleton was a baker and one of our forgotten members who served in the First World War. He was a baker by trade and managing director of R. Embleton and Son Ltd., the Newcastle bakers, most remembered for “Embleton’s Sunshine Bread” and later for “Mother’s Pride “. On his death he left around 3 million to his widow!
He served with the Army Service Corps as a driver in a Mechanical Transport Company attached to the 193 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery and you can read his story here or go the Roll of Honour, scroll down and select his name.
More biographies of our WW1 members coming soon.
