| Admin History / Hanes Gweinyddol | Thomas Salt was the eldest son of a solicitor by the same name based in Rugeley, Staffordshire. In 1815 he was made a partner in the Shrewsbury firm of Pemberton, Coupland and Dukes. On the deaths of Robert Pemberton and William Coupland the partnership of Dukes & Salt remained in business until 1839, when Thomas Farmer Dukes retired. In 1845 Thomas Salt was joined in partnership by his son George Moultrie Salt, and later, by another son, William, and the firm was renamed Salt & Sons. More recently, the firm became Wace, Morgan and Salt. |