W.A. & A.C. Churchman

W.A. & A.C. Churchman was a British cigarette manufacturer based in Ipswich, Suffolk.

History

The firm was founded in Ipswich by William Churchman in 1790, beginning as a small pipe tobacco manufacturer with a shop at Hyde Park Corner. In 1888 William Alfred (later Sir William) and Arthur Charles Churchman (later Lord Woodbridge and a director of the British American Tobacco Company from 1904 to 1923), grandsons of the founder, succeeded their father, Henry, in the business.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "IMPERIAL TOBACCO LTD (FORMERLY W A AND A C CHURCHMAN LTD), IPSWICH AND NORWICH". The National Archives. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
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