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WHO WAS WHO IN OLD PLYMOUTH

RICHARD ERNEST TRAHAIR (1874-1938)

At the time of the death of Mr William Bolitho Trahair, chairman of Messrs Farley's Infant Food Limited, in 1934, the managing director of the Company was Mr Richard Ernest Trahair, the only son of Mr Richard Hitchins Trahair (1848-1901).

It was Mr Richard Trahair who paid for the erection and equipping of the pavillion on the playing field donated to the Plymouth Juvenile Committee by Mr William Bolitho Trahair.

During 1938 the size of the factory at Torr Lane was doubled and the most up-to-date plant installed.

Mr Richard Ernest Trahair died on September 14th 1938 at 3 West Park, Saltash, Cornwall.  He left an estate worth £116,655 7 shillings and 7 pence to his widow.  During his lifetime he had been a member of the Wesley Memorial Chapel at Saltash.  Although cremated at Efford Crematorium in Plymouth on September 17th 1938, his ashes were interred in the Wesley Burial Ground at Saint Just in Penwith, Cornwall.

The business now passed into the hands of his two eldest sons, Mr Nicholas Roseveare Trahair (1914-2003) and Mr David Ladner Trahair (1917-2001).  They were grandsons of Mr Richard Hitchins Trahair, the merchant in Bristol, who was the older brother of Mr William Bolitho Trahair.