William Hoyle (temperance reformer)
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William Hoyle | |
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| Born | 5 November 1831 |
| Died | 26 February 1886 (aged 54) |
William Hoyle (5 November 1831 – 26 February 1886) was a British temperance reformer and vegetarian.
Hoyle born in Rossendale Valley was the fourth child of poor Methodist parents.[1][2][3] He worked in a mill from the age of eight and was fully employed as a mill worker by the age of thirteen.[3] Several years later he was a full operative, supervising several looms. He became a vegetarian at the age of seventeen for economic and hygienic reasons.[3]
Hoyle became a teetotaller in about 1846.[3] He was a cotton manufacturer at Brooksbottom with his father in 1851. He established his own mill at Tottington in 1859 which employed 500 men by 1877.[3]
Hoyle contributed to the statistical literature of the temperance movement.[4] He authored books and pamphlets on the topic.[3] Hoyle was elected a Fellow of the Statistical Society. Hoyle was an executive member and vice-president of the United Kingdom Alliance.[3] He was the treasurer of the British Temperance League. He married his wife Alice in 1859. They had a son and daughter.[3]
Hoyle was secretary of a local vegetarian society at Crawshawbooth in the 1850s.[3] He contributed to the vegetarian Dietetic Reformer.[3] His pamphlet Food: Its Nature and Adaptability: An Argument for Vegetarian Diet was published in 1864.[4] He was a vice-president of the Vegetarian Society.[5]
Hoyle died at Southport in 1886.[3] Frederic Richard Lees edited and published Hoyle's final work, Wealth and Social Progress which includes a biographical essay of Hoyle.[3]
