Samuel Whitmore
Samuel Whitmore (1860-1929) chief engineer and manager of the Roll Factory in Wolverhampton of John Lysaght. Also director of Wright's Chilled and Grain Roll Co and of the Lowmoor Iron Co
Worked for Lysaght for more than fifty years
1929 Obituary [1]
SAMUEL WHITMORE, J.P., died at his residence on October 13, 1929, after a painful illness.
He was born in Staffordshire in 1860. He was chief engineer of Messrs. John Lysaght, Ltd., Newport, Monmouthshire, and manager of their roll foundry at Wolverhampton. He was chiefly responsible for the layout of the Orb Works, Newport, and also the Australian Mills, and had been with the firm for more than half a century. During the war he was largely responsible for the great output of shells at the Maesglas Shell Factory, Newport.
He was a director of Wright's Chilled and Grain Roll Co., Ltd., Tipton, and also of the Lowmoor Iron Co., Bradford. He was a Harbour Commissioner for Newport and a Justice of the Peace for the County of Monmouth.
He was elected to membership of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1903.