Budding, Edwin Beard (1796–1846), engineer and inventor, was born on 25 August 1796 and baptized at St Michael's, Eastington and Alkerton, Gloucestershire, on 10 November 1796, the son of Charles Brain Budding (bap. 1755), and his wife, Mary Beard. Nothing is known of ...
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Corfield, Sir Kenneth George (1924–2016), mechanical engineer and industrialist, was born on 27 January 1924 at home in Westminster Road, Rushall, near Walsall, Staffordshire, the third in the family of four sons of Stanley Corfield (b. 1889), a buyer for an engineering firm, and his wife ...
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Sir George Herbert Dowty (1901–1975) by unknown photographer Royal Aeronautical Society Library
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Dowty, Sir George Herbert (1901–1975), aeronautical engineer and industrialist, was born on 27 April 1901 at Pershore, Worcestershire, the son of William Dowty, a druggist and chemist in Pershore, and his wife, Laura Masters. He was the elder of twin boys by half an hour and the seventh son in the family. The twins were educated in a small private school in ...
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Lorimer, Sir William (1844–1922), locomotive engineer and industrialist, was born on 4 November 1844 in Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, son of William Lorimer, house factor, and Margaret Whigham. Little is known about his family origins and early life in Sanquhar. He attended the local parish school and at the age of fifteen joined the ...
