Llanbedr Mining Co. Ltd

Incorporated

5 April 1890

Objects

To acquire the mining businesses in the County of Merioneth and Abersoch Caernarvonshire from Hugh John Jones and Alfred Evans, both of LLanbedr

Registered Office

Glan Artro, Llanbedr, Merioneth
28 Queen Street, Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire

Original Capital

£5,000 as 2,000 Preference shares and 3,000 Ordinary shares of £1 each

Directors

1890		E A Beaumont (Chairman) Hugh John Jones (Manager)
1891		E A Beaumont Edric Herbert Bailey Hugh John Jones Ronald Roberts Hamilton Lockhart Ross

Major Shareholders

1890		6 Preference shares and 925 Ordinary shares held by 9 members W H Saville and J C Platt of Leeds (500 Ord) E A Beaumont of Huddersfield (50 Ord) Hugh John Jones (375 Ord)
1893		56 Preference shares and 2175 Ordinary shares held by 11 members Alfred Evans (51 Pref) E A Beaumont (50 Ord) W H Saville and J C Platt (500 Ord) Edric Herbert Bailey (400 Ord) Arthur Doncaster Thursby (350 Ord) Ronald Roberts Hamilton Lockhart Ross (500 Ord)

Operations

1880–1894 Coed and Lletty Walter

Disolved

5 May 1896

[PRO BT31/4728/31207]

Agreement 5 April 1890 between Alfred Evans and Hugh John Jones (1) the Company (2) and E A Beaumont (3). Recites that A Evans and H J Jones have “negotiated with Mr Kirby for a lease of Coed Mines”. Lease sold to Company for £512 in cash to A Evans and 375 shares to H J Jones.

In 1894 it was stated “The Company has done no business for the last three or four years. It has no assets and E A Beaumont has lost several hundred pounds.”