David Hulett
of D. Hulett and Co of Holborn, gas engineer
1812 Born in St Martin's, London
1836 Set up a gas undertaking in Barking
1841 David Hulett 25, gas fitter, lived in Clerkenwell with Martha Hulett 30[1]
1851 David Hulett 36, engineer at gas manufactory, lived in 55 High Holborn with Martha Hulett 40[2]
1853 Patent on Improvements in the manufacture of ornaments for lamps, chandeliers,and architectural purposes[3]
1861 David Hulett 43, brass founder, lived in Hornsey with Martha Hulett 52 and cousins Maria Robins 17, Emily Robins 11, Walter Benson 10[4]
1871 David Hulett 59, gas engineer and owner of woodland, lived in Bexley, Martha Hulet, 53, and visitor Walter Benson, gas engineer[5]
1874 Patent on "improvements in street and other lamps or lanterns; and in apparatus for regulating, the supply of gas thereto and to other gas burners."[6]
1874 Gas engineer, of 55 and 56, High Holborn, petitioned to wind up the Foreign and Colonial Gas Co[7]
1877 Letters Patent granted to Thomas Nesham Kirkham, David Hulett, Samuel Chandler, junior, and Josiah Chandler, for the inventions of:
- "improvements in apparatus for the purification of gas" of March 1877
- "improvements in apparatus for the purification of gas" of May 1877
and to Thomas Nesham Kirkham, David Hulett, Samuel Chandler, senior, and Samuel Chandler, junior for:
- "improvements in apparatus for condensing, washing, and purifying gas and other vapours" of Dec 1877
which were subsequently amended by application of Kirkham, Hulett, and Chandler Limited, of Palace-chambers, Bridge-street, Westminster, in 1884[8]
1881 David Hulett 68, Gas Engineer, Gas Apparatus Fitter & Manufacturer, lived in Dartford, with Martha Hulett 72[9]
1889 Died in Dartford[10]