Obituaries also state that he acted as a Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire , and was at one time a Chief Bailiff of Burslem . Woodall became the Chairman of the Sneyd Colliery Company in North Staffordshire , one of the oldest coal mines in the UK , which he was said to own . One of his hobbies was the collecting and appreciation of oil and water-colour pictures and Continental pottery . He was also a great traveler , and was one of the first to enter Paris after the Siege of Paris ( 1870 – 1871 ) , which is recorded in his book '' Paris After Two Sieges '' ( 1872 ) . He used his influence as an M.P. to lobby prominent people of the day to lecture at the Wedgwood Memorial Institute in Burslem
Sneyd Colliery
Sneyd Colliery Disaster
William Woodall