Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Ralph Bowsher Lyddon

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Ralph Bowsher Lyddon (1869- ) of Cameron Hastie and Co

Born the son of Alfred Augustus Lyddon, an Oil Merchant.

1898 Married at Hammersmith to Marion Gomm

1911 Living at Westward Ho, Redditch Rd, Kings Norton: Ralph Bowsher Lyddon (age 41 born Bristol), Engineer (Mechanical), Managing Director for Boiler Covering Company. With his wife Marion.[1]

1922 M.I.Mech.E., Chairman, Man. Dir. and Cons. Engr. to Cameron Hastie and Co., Ltd., Lifford Mills, King's Norton, Birmingham; b. 1869; s. of late Alfred Augustus Lyddon. Ed. Independent Coll., Taunton. Training: Under John Avery, Bristol. Three years with the Bristol Biscuit Co., then Director, and later as Joint Man. Dir. with Cameron Hastie & Co., Ltd.; Inventor of The Lyddon Patent Flue Covers for arresting escape of heat through Flue Arches of Lancashire and similar Boilers; Patentee of Two-speed Gear for Motor Bicycles; Patentee of Apparatus for obtaining more perfect combustion in Horizontal Boilers. Publ.: "Fuel Economy by Insulation."

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Sources of Information

  1. 1911 Census