Edwin Dawson Clark
1861 Born the son of a Reading lead merchant.[1]
Served an apprenticeship with Hayward Tyler and Co of Luton Works, a manufacturer of reciprocating pumps.
Clark later worked as an improver with Maudslay, Sons and Field in London, and then for the Thetford engineers and traction-engine builders, Charles Burrell and Sons Ltd.
1882 Went to work for G. Davis and Sons at Abingdon where he was a draughtsman and rose to be assistant manager.
Striking out on his own at the age of 23, Edwin Clark took his expertise to Gloucestershire.
1884 He set up his own boat-building business at Brimscombe beside the Thames and Severn Canal - this was Edwin Clark and Co. at Hope Mills, Brimscombe, which was extended to Canal Iron Works on the oppositie bank of the canal. He married Ann Baker Payne, daughter of an Abingdon miller, and moved to Quarry Farm Cottage, Thrupp.
1893 Applied for membership of the Institution of Marine Architects (sic); he claimed to have produced 40 vessels up to that time.
1896 Edwin Clark died of chronic lung disease.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Parish records
- Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology Journal for 1987 pages 33-41