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.
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Francis Watkins (1800-1847) of Watkins and Hill
1834 Francis Watkins of Charing Cross, an Optician, became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.[1]
1848 Obituary [2]
Mr. Watkins was an extensive manufacturer of philosophical instruments, many of which he exhibited at the meetings of the Institution, which he attended very assiduously, and he was always ready to devote his time to the interests of the Society.
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