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 164,965 pages of information and 246,442 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.

Charles Friend Cooper

From Graces Guide

of Paterson and Cooper, Telegraph Works, Pownall Road, Dalston, London, E.

1855 Born in Surbiton[1] son of Charles and Sarah Cooper[2]

Apprenticed at J. and H. Gwynne for 4 years

Served the firm a further 3.5 years at various grades of draughtsman

1880 Elected associate of Inst of Civil Engineers

1882 Joined Edward Paterson in partnership as Paterson and Cooper; managed the works at Dalston.

1882 An electric light and power and telephone engineer. Proposal to join I Mech E

1883 Member of I Mech E, of 76 Little Britain, Aldersgate St., London

1891 Civil engineer, living in Kingston upon Thames with Charles and Sarah Cooper and their other children[3]

1911 Civil engineer, living in Kingston upon Thames with his widowed mother and sisters[4]

1920 Died in Kingston[5]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. BMD
  2. 1871 census
  3. 1891 census
  4. 1911 census
  5. BMD
  • Mechanical Engineer Records