Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Christopher Wilson

From Graces Guide

Christopher Wilson, A.M.I.E.E.

1870 Born in North Kensington

Trained at Finsbury Technical College.

1901 Living in Hammersmith; joined IEE[1]; electrical engineer, living in Hammersmith with Amy J Wilson 28, Mildred A Wilson 4, Dorothy B Wilson 1[2]

1914 Manager of Robertson Electric Lamps Ltd at Bounds Green

1916 With Frederick Percy Driver proposed setting up a research laboratory to serve Osram Lamp Works. When the laboratories were eventually established, they would cover all of GEC

1922 Director, General Electric Co., Ltd.


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Sources of Information

  1. Electrical engineer records
  2. 1901 census