| Edmund Charles Pendleton Hull | ||
| ............Edmund Hull pictured in 1913 | ||
 ....Edmund Charles Pendleton Hull came
to Redhill around 1884 and became a prominent citizen
involved in many aspects of public life, serving in the
capacity of President and Vice-President of many bodies,
and in many other positions as well. He was for many
years the President and Treasurer of the Earlswood
Asylum, working tirelessly to raise the huge sums
required when structural defects in the building were
discovered. He was a supporter of St John's Church, to
which he donated the ornate organ screen. He was Vicars'
Warden at St John's for a short time and a sidesman for
many years. He was also present at many of the activities
of St John's School, especially the annual Empire Day
celebrations.E.C.P.Hull was born in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland on 1March 1839 (or it may have been '41). The second son of John Dawson Hull, who was for many years chaplain to the Duchess of Gordon and afterwards a Suffolk vicar, E.C.P.Hull was in early life a coffee planter in Ceylon and South India. Returning to England in 1870 he founded the London firm of Hull, Blyth & Co., foreign coaling contractors. On 27th August 1879 he married Fanny Maria Julius (b. c1857) the daughter of the Rev. Julius of Norfolk, in the Southery Parish Church. There is a possibility that he lived at Birkheads Rd., Reigate in 1875 but this may not be so as his first several children were born in Blackheath, Kent. However, in 1887 he is listed as being at "Southery" Earlswood Common, and by 1890 at The Mount. The 1891 Census gives his household as himself (he is noted as being a Merchant and Coal Contractor), wife Fanny Maria and children Trevor, Winifred, Leonard, Millicent, and Evelyn. Also, his sister, Jane and her husband Surgeon Major Thomas Hendley. Additionally there were also a Butler, Cook/Housekeeper, Parlour Maid, House Maid, Nurse Maid and Coachman. (Children Hubert, Isabel and Charles were born in 1892, '93 and '97, respectively.) He was a staunch supporter of the Conservative cause and author of works on coffee cultivation and of The European in India. In 1895 he became a Surrey County Councillor. He later became a Magistrate and a Justice of the Peace (c1922) as well as filling the office of High Sheriff of Surrey. He was a member of the War Memorial Committee and involved in securing the Memorial Sports Ground in 1923 for the enjoyment of the public. In 1922 he was made a Freeman of the Borough in recognition of the good he had done for the Borough over many years, at that time the only person not to have served on the Council to have received that honour. He moved to Parkgate House, Ham Common, near Richmond Park in 1922, where he died two years later, on 8 November 1924, aged 84. .......The Mount was put up for sale by auction in 1936 but it is not known why it went out of the family hands. It was taken on for a while by the Redhill Genderal Hospital for administrative offices and a social club was built in the grounds. It is not known when the road passing the General Hospital was renamed Pendleton Road (presumably after Edmund Charles Pendleton Hull from its earlier name of Union Road. ................. |
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| The Hull
family is being researched by a descendant in the USA who
kindly supplied some of the information above. If anyone
has further information about E.C.P. Hull, his family,
the Mount or any related subject connected with the above
then please contact the author of this web page and that information will be passed on. |
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