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USA
(See The Companies Official Website)
See also the History of the Company in the UK
Notes
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Thanks to the worldwide success of the Fishing Tackle Company it is difficult to walk past a fishing tackle shop or along a river bank without seeing the famous surname. The town of Redditch, Worcs., was the centre of the needle making history, which also included the manufacture of fishing hooks - hence the establishment of a number of leading fishing tackle firms in the town. For those in England it might be presumed that the company, being based in Redditch, very near to the Warwickshire border, has its' roots in that county. However, reading the story of the companies origins in the USA before its' acquisition of an English company, it might be thought that the origin of the companies name lies strictly in the USA - there is a strange twist to this! William Shakespeare, the companies founder, was the son of William Henry Shakespeare, who was the son of John Lindsay Shakespeare. This is where the Warwickshire connection comes in, for John Lindsay Shakespeare was a descendant of one of the two brothers, children of John Shakespeare and Jane Whitehead of Coventry, who were transported to the USA for an, as yet, undetermined crime. Henry Shakespeare was the last family owner of this company, and he died in 1993. Prior to that he had sold the company to Anthony Industries. |
May 2004
Information reproduced from the website of the Shakespeare Fishing Tackle Company, with kind permission of Roxanne Coleman, Marketing Services Manager