title: Edward Vickers
text: # Edward Vickers
  
  Edward Vickers (1804-1897) was the founder of Naylor Vickers & Co. which became Vickers Limited.
  
  ## Career
  
  Vickers was a successful miller who invested his money in the railway industry. In 1828 he garnered control of his father-in-law's steel foundry business, formerly Naylor & Sanderson, and renamed it Naylor Vickers & Co. He went on to be Alderman and the Mayor of Sheffield and was the first President of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce before he died in 1897.
  
  ## Family
  
  In 1828 Vickers married Anne Naylor. They had seven children (George Naylor (1830-1889) who married Maria Jackson, granddaughter of steelmaker James Jackson, Thomas Edward (1833-1915), Sarah Ann (1836-1919), Albert [Wikidata] (1838-1919), Frederick (1840-?), Gertrude L. (1845-?) and Isabel (1847-?)).
  
  