History of the Carlile family

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 45
whom his father had been connected for forty years. He
remained in active partnership with Messrs. Brook until 1875.
During this time their works were largely extended, owing to the
successful carrying out of an important patent.
He was much interested in the Volunteers, and while living
near Huddersfield was for six years an officer in the Huddersfield
Battalion, from which he retired in 1873, being then Major. He
has also been interested in many religious and philanthropic
societies, such as the Bible Society, the Church Missionary
Society, the Church Army (of which he is a Vice-President),
Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and the
Colonial and Continental Church Society, of which last he has
recently been elected a Vice-President. In 1891 he founded and
endowed the " Carlile Institute" at Meltham, and it was enlarged
in 1903. The object of this Institute is to provide a place of rest
for the factory hands. They have the advantage of two billiard
tables, a library and hall for lectures of a scientific or literary
nature and concerts. The various rooms are decorated with pithy
mottoes selected by the Founder, and the hall is decorated with oil
pictures, kit-kat size, of the Prime Ministers during the life of the
Founder. Mr. J. W. Carlile has collected many good pictures,
among them a Holbein (portrait of Duke of Somerset), Leighton,
Colin Hunter, and Marcus Stone (2). In 1886 his portrait and
that of his (first) wife were painted by W. W. Ouless, r.a.
These latter pictures and many others are now at Gayhurst
(Carlile, William Walter). In 1906 he presented his "The Last
Load," by John Linnell, senior (1792 — 1882), canvas 2 ft. 1 1 in.
by 4ft 9^ in., to the Tate Gallery, where it is now hanging in
Gallery III, No. 2060.
In 1882-3 he served the office of High Sheriff for Herts.
He is now D.L. and J. P. for that county, and J. P. for Bucks.
In politics he is a Conservative, and he is a member of the
Junior Carlton Club,