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John Williams Lack was apparently born in the parish of Calstock, Cornwall, in around 1822. What happened to him and family between then and 1851 is not known but in the census of that year he was living at the Gas Works in Plymouth, with a younger brother, William, where they were being looked after by their 65-yeras-old aunt, Mary Lack. At that time he was a civil engineer, presumably in the Gas Works. A few months after the census he married a Cornish lady. At some point he entered into a partnership with Mr Charles Frederick Burnard and Mr William Henry Alger to manufacture chemical fertiliser, at first in Sutton Road. Unfortunately Mr John Williams Lack died suddenly on Saturday November 2nd 1872 at the young age of 51 years, after which the business became Messrs Burnard and Alger Ltd. His widow continued to live at their home, number 3 Osborne Place, The Hoe, Plymouth. They had two daughters, Miss Mary Emma Lack, born in 1853, who in 1890 married Mr Raymond Murray Richardson, the much younger manager for an East India agent; and Miss Edith Lack, born in 1858.
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