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Lancashire / Re: Cumberland to Lancashire via Potugal and Brazil - Carruthers & Co.
« on: Sunday 13 April 14 12:16 BST (UK)  »
We did a quick trip up to Crosby-on-Eden yesterday and saw (bits of) Eden Grove from a drive past.  Also got access to church there, which has just one plaque inside: and yes, it's to Richard Carruthers !  Didn't stick around long enough to go thru the cemetery to find his grave.
Thanks for all your info - I did know that portrait of Wordsworth.
I have a good collection of fine art prints in books on Brazil (in store) which I will eventually go through with the mission of finding anything by RC.
Good luck with the research- it's an interesting project.
cheers John K

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Lancashire / Re: Cumberland to Lancashire via Potugal and Brazil - Carruthers & Co.
« on: Friday 11 April 14 23:30 BST (UK)  »
Was the artist Richard the younger then ?

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Lancashire / Re: Cumberland to Lancashire via Potugal and Brazil - Carruthers & Co.
« on: Friday 11 April 14 23:26 BST (UK)  »
Was Carruthers any good at painting ?  I hadn't seen any mention of his prowess in this area in Brazil.  Just that he was a steady, probably a bit dour, merchant.  If he produced anything in Brazil it's not well-known as I've seen most collections of that period there.  We live in Arnside, so a quick trip up the M6 no probs.

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Lancashire / Re: Cumberland to Lancashire via Potugal and Brazil - Carruthers & Co.
« on: Friday 11 April 14 10:00 BST (UK)  »
I haven't looked carefully at all your posts on this subject. Are you a descendent of the wise Richard Carruthers ?  What got my attention yesterday was we were (unusually) watching ITV and there was a mention of Carrutherstown.  So that reminded me about my curiosity about your Carruthers. And behold, I did a web search and found your posts.  The chap in Brazil must have picked up my mention of Maua in the same way.  I lived in Rio for 4 of my 14 years in Brazil. As economic correspondent I was always interested in seeing how industry developed and nobody figures larger than Maua.  We'll certainly have a spin up to Eden Grove and the church.

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Lancashire / Re: Cumberland to Lancashire via Potugal and Brazil - Carruthers & Co.
« on: Friday 11 April 14 06:29 BST (UK)  »
feel free to email me directly: jkbrazuk@yahoo.co.uk  My books are in store at the moment but have a couple of books on Maua in Portuguese.  I'm now living in Cumbria and would love to know exactly where Richard lived so I could drive by and maybe see his gravestone. The street and building where he worked in downtown Rio is still well preserved. cheers John Kolodziejski

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Lancashire / Re: Cumberland to Lancashire via Potugal and Brazil - Carruthers & Co.
« on: Thursday 10 April 14 22:13 BST (UK)  »
Richard Carruthers I have some information about.  He played a major role in the industrial revolution in Brazil.  While a merchant in Rio de Janeiro he took on an orphan apprentice, if I remember correctly: Evangelista de Sousa from Porto Alegre.  The orphan had great aptitude for business and Carruthers backed him financially.  Evangelista was later made Baron de Maua.  He built Brazil's first railway, its first naval dockyard forge. I think the first Brazilian streamship.  Teh very first Brazilian steam engine (built in Manchester) was named Baron de Maua.  All this is from memory but you can corroborate it on line.  I was a correspondent in Brazil for 14 years and read extensively on the Maua.  I wondered what happened to Richard Carruthers.  Biographers of Maua mention Carruthers retired to Carlisle.  Any info on his end ?

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