Born Stockport. Engineer working in the field of precision instruments and guns. Philanthropic, giving money for education during his life and encouraging his beneficiaries to do so after his death. Died in Monte Carlo where he had gone for his health.
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Sir Joseph Whitworth
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Pieter Verbruggen
Gun-founder. Son of Jan Verbruggen. The picture shows the second machine built by the Verbruggens.
Edward Willis
From Historic England: Engineer and architect to the Chiswick Urban District Council in 1921. Also designed the Memorial Fund's Chiswick War Memorial Rest Homes, Burlington Lane. Housing disabled s...
Lieutenant Colonel John By
Founder of Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers. Born Lambeth and baptised in the church of St. Mary-at-Lambeth, August 10, 1779. After a distinguished career ...
F. Douglas Barton
Borough Engineer and Surveyor in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Frank Douglas Barton was born in 1888 in Stockport, Cheshire, the son of Fr...
Norwood pumping station
This building provided the propulsion for the Croydon atmospheric railway. We don't know when the building was demolished. This 1868 map shows a building approximately '50m north of the bridge' whi...
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Aaron Botibol
This person's grave was destroyed by a WW2 bomb. The name is on the south-west face of the pedestal.
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