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Coppack, Thomas [Tom] (1895–1981), shipowner  

A. W. H. Pearsall

Coppack, Thomas [Tom] (1895–1981), shipowner, was born on 14 August 1895, at East View, High Street, Connah's Quay, Flintshire, the fourth child and second son of Thomas Coppack (c.1867–1940), shipowner, of Connah's Quay, and Elizabeth Ann Butler (d. 1956) of ...

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Philipps, Owen Cosby, Baron Kylsant (1863–1937), shipowner  

Michael S. Moss

Philipps, Owen Cosby, Baron Kylsant (1863–1937), shipowner, was born at the vicarage, Warminster, Wiltshire, on 25 March 1863, the third son of the vicar, the Revd Sir James Erasmus Philipps, twelfth baronet (1824–1912), and his wife, Mary Margaret Best (d. 1913). After an unremarkable education at ...

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Spooner, Charles Easton (bap. 1818, d. 1889), railway engineer  

P. J. G. Ransom

Spooner, Charles Easton (bap. 1818, d. 1889), railway engineer, was born at Maentwrog, Merioneth, and baptized on 25 May 1818 at Maentwrog church, the fourth of ten children of James Spooner (1790–1856), surveyor and civil engineer, and his first wife, Elizabeth, née Easton (1787–1850)...

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Williams, Thomas Eifion Hopkins (1923–2001), civil and transport engineer  

Peter Baldwin

Williams, Thomas Eifion Hopkins (1923–2001), civil and transport engineer, was born on 14 June 1923 at Castle House, Lower Cwmtwrch, near Ystradgynlais, Brecknockshire, the second son and fourth child of David Garfield Williams, a miner, and his wife, Annie Mary, née Hopkins. Educated at ...