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English: Is there a connection with Bigg's (sic) Exmoor Hunt mixture?

An uncovererd business frontage in the new hip Shoreditch. From being a centre of manufacturing, it is now a hotbed of 24 hour fun. A quick internet search reveals that James Biggs was a tobacco manufacturer here in 1869 according to that Old Bailey trial. I think Bigg's Exmoor Hunt was quite unrelated, being Edwards, Ringer & Bigg , part of Imperial Tobacco Co. , at Redciliff Street, Bristol and later at Ipswich as part of Churchman's

In the 1881 census, James Biggs Tobacco Merchant And Manufacturer, employing 18 Men 4 Boys and 17 Women, born 1829 Birmingham, was living at Westbury Lodge, South Weald, wife Elizabeth, [born Liverpool] children Elizabeth, James, Mary Edith Dora James and sister in law [visitor] Mary M Biggs from Tipton. Biggs had been living locally since about 1860 and was chairman of the local horticultural society. In 1881 they had one governess and four servants. Sold in 1897.

Jan 5 1900 [London Gazette] NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretoi. 1 fore subsisting between us the undersigned, James Biggs and James Charles Biggs, carrying on business as Tobacco, Cigarette, Cigar, and Snuff and Roll Spinners, and Manufacturers, at 159, Commercial-street, E., 11, Fleur-de-Lis-street, E., and 201, Shoreditch High-street, E., under the style or firm of James Biggs and Son, has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the first day of January, 1900. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said James Biggs, who will for the future carry on the business on his own account, at the above-mentioned addresses, under the present style of James Biggs and Son.—Dated this fourth day of January, 1900. JAMES BIGGS. JAMES CHARLES BIGGS.

London Gazette OCtober 1 1858 2101. To Edward Welch, of Saint John's-square, Clerkenwell, in the county of Middlesex, and James Biggs, of Norton Folgate, in the city of London, Tobacco Manufacturers, for the invention of " an improved tobacco-press."

1`9 July 1927 NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between James Charles Biggs and me, the undersigned, William Montagu Jones, carrying on business as Tobacco Merchants, at 49, Exmouth-street, Clerkenwell, London, E.C., under the style or firm of REDFORD & CO., has been dissolved as from the fourth day of July, 1927, by reason of the death of the said James Charles Biggs. All debts due and owing to or by the said late firm will be .respectively received and paid by the said William Montagu Jones, who will continue to carry on the said business under the same style or firm of Redford & Co.—As witness our hands this 18th day of July, 1927. W. MONTAGU JONES. SYDNEY WALES, as Solicitor for the Executors of the said James Charles Biggs, deceased.

death of William Montagu Jones... Formerly of 49, Exmouth Street, London, EC1 and 17, Lloyd Square, London WC1 , but late of The Central Hotel, London Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent Tobacco manufacturer, died 9 December 1950.

For some reason, the packaging of Redford cigarettes gave the address as Exmouth Street "WC" rather than EC, the correct address. [renamed Exmouth Market]

James Charles Biggs' address was given as Exmouth Street and also Arbury, Broxbourne, Herts. died July 7 1924