{"id":1844,"date":"2015-10-21T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T23:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:48:49","slug":"cappen-sam-the-right-man-in-the-right-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/cappen-sam-the-right-man-in-the-right-place","title":{"rendered":"Cappen Sam, The Right Man In The Right Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1893, Harvey&#8217;s great-great-grandfather, <strong><a title=\"Samuel Wright\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbitt.org.uk\/barnesfamilytree\/fam1955.html\">Samuel Wright<\/a><\/strong>, was at the forefront of new technology. After three decades working with machines, he was put in charge of a new steam joinery works in Penzance, Cornwall, owned by Messrs Caldwell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A newspaper article of the time goes into great detail about the new equipment. There was initially some concern that the labour-saving machinery would lead to unemployment in the trade but the reverse turned out to be the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It seems Samuel was head-hunted for the job as the newspaper states\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The machinist and joiner, who was had down from Exeter to take charge of this branch, was Mr. Samuel Wright, and Messrs. Caldwell consider &#8220;Cappen Sam&#8221; is &#8220;the right man in the right place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_1848\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1848\" class=\"wp-image-1848 size-full\" title=\"From The Cornishman newspaper article dated 1893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cappen-sam.jpg\" alt=\"From The Cornishman newspaper article dated 1893\" width=\"423\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cappen-sam.jpg 423w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cappen-sam-150x45.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From The Cornishman newspaper article dated 1893<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A full transcript of the newspaper article is available on <strong><a title=\"Samuel Wright's biography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbitt.org.uk\/barnesbiographies\/bio-wright-samuel-1845-1917.html\">Samuel Wright&#8217;s biography<\/a><\/strong> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1893, Harvey&#8217;s great-great-grandfather, Samuel Wright, was at the forefront of new technology. After three decades working with machines, he was put in charge of a new steam joinery works in Penzance, Cornwall, owned by Messrs Caldwell. A newspaper article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/cappen-sam-the-right-man-in-the-right-place\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancestors-corner","tag-wright"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}