page_title: William Henry Wakefield
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: William Henry Wakefield / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the entrance front of Sedgwick House; enhanced by myself
context_page_description: William Henry Wakefield was an English banker. Wakefield was a partner in Wakefield Crewdson & Co., the family bank in to which his father brought him. He became the senior partner of the bank in 1864. Through the bank he was involved in railways and gunpowder manufacturing.
context_section_description: Wakefield died while hunting. The gunpowder company W. H. Wakefield & Co. continued into the 20th century. The Kendal bank was bought by the Bank of Liverpool in 1893.
caption: Sedgwick House, Cumbria
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