Thomas Bouts
Thomas Bouts (1866-1940)
1941 Obituary [1]
THOMAS BOUTS, Wh.Ex., who was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1898, served his apprenticeship with Mr. F. W. Jackson, Kingsbury Ironworks, Dalston (London), from 1880 to 1883, when he went to Messrs. Archibald Smith and Stevens, hydraulic and general engineers, as improver until 1888, and afterwards was for six months fitter and erector to Messrs. Miller Rouse and Tupp, steam launch builders, at Hammersmith.
He then underwent a course of study at the Birkbeck Institute and the Onslow College, Chelsea, until 1891 when he became draughtsman to the Anti-Friction and Grinding Machinery Company. In the same year he obtained a Whitworth Exhibition, and in 1892 was appointed chief draughtsman to Messrs. Henry Pontifex and Son, brewers' engineers; he held a similar position from 1893 to 1898, with Messrs. John Dewrance and Company, pump makers and manufacturers of engine fittings. After acting as chief draughtsman to Messrs. Ernest Scott and Company, he went to the biscuit factory of Messrs. Peek, Frean and Company in 1911 and remained with that firm as chief draughtsman until his retirement in 1932.
Mr. Bouts, who was born in 1866, met his death as a result of enemy action, on 15th September 1940.