Anthony Hailwood ( - 24 June 1922) was the first person to sell sterilised milk in the UK.
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He came from Salford. He worked as a milk boy from the age of four. He worked as a tier-boy to a block printer for 1s 6d a week. At the age of eight he worked for Jacob Bright of Rochdale, as a half-timer, whereby he spent some time at school, and worked in cotton mills until the age of fifteen.
For fifteen years he worked on the railways.
He entered the dairy industry in 1858. He was one of the founders of the Worleston Dairy Institute, the first of its kind in the UK, at Aston juxta Mondrum in Cheshire, which closed in 1926.
He later owned Rose Tree Farm and Black Greyhound Farm, with 85 acres, at Lostock Gralam, near Northwich in Cheshire.
He started the commercial sterilisation (pasteurization) of milk in the UK in 1894. It was provided by the Cheshire Sterilised Milk Company. This meant that milk could then be stored for a longer time.
He lived at Victoria Lodge, on Lower Broughton Road, in Higher Broughton in the County Borough of Salford (near where the A576 crosses the River Irwell).
He was on Salford Town Council for many years.