Thomas Parkin
1824 of Bache's Row, City Road, Mddx. Merchant. Patent for printing machinery [1]
1836 Patent. 'Thomas Parkins of Dudley, gentleman for certain improvements in sleepers or bearers applicable to rail-roads'[2]
1840 Patent. 'that Thomas Parkin, of No. 25, Moorgate-street, in the city of London, Civil Engineer, hath presented a petition to Her Majesty's Solicitor General, for leave to enter with the Clerk of the Patents in England, a memorandum of alteration and disclaimer of certain parts of his invention of "improvements in railroad and other carriages, in wheels for such carriages, and in roads and ways on which they are to travel."...'[3]
1843 Insolvent. 'Thomas Parkin, late of No. 4, Montpelier-row, South Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, also of Brook-green-lane, Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex, and also of No. 25, Moorgate-street, in the city of London, Civil Engineer.— In the Queen's Prison.'[4]
1843 Insolvent. 'Thomas Parkin, formerly of Paris-street, Lambeth, Surrey, out of business, then of Paris-street aforesaid, and afterwards, of Dudley, Worcestershire, carrying on business in copartnership with Henry Kitchen, as Miners and Brick-makers, then a Prisoner for Debt in the Debtors' Prison for the county of Worcester, then of the Queen's Bench Prison, Surrey, then of Paris-street aforesaid, out of business, then of Brook-street, Lambeth aforesaid, then of Paradise-street, Lambeth aforesaid, then of the Borough-road, Surrey, then of Sedgley, Staffordshire, then of Cornwall-road, Lambeth aforesaid, then of Trinity-street, or place, Borough, then of Saint Andrew's-road, Borough, Surrey, out of business, then of Great Suffolk-street, Borough aforesaid, then of Hoxton-square, Shoreditch, Middlesex, then of Llanelly, South Wales, then of Swansea, Glamorganshire, then of Bristol, Somersetshire, then of Earl-street, Finsbury-square, Middlesex, then of Great Union-street, Borough, then of Paragon-place, New Kent-road, then of Jamaica-row, Bermondsey, then of Larkhall-lane, Clapham, then of Lavender-hill, then of Newington-causeway, then of Northampton-place, Old Kent-road, then of Lower Bland-street, Newington, having a workshop in Kent-street, Borough, then of Warner-street, Newington, then of Deverill-street, Newington, then of Princes-place, Westminster-road, then of Kennington-lane, then of Hendre-road, Old Kent-road, then of Grange-road, then of Kennington-lane aforesaid, then of Neckinger-road, Bermondsey, then of Park-grove, Brixton, then of Manor-street, then of Union-road, both in Clapham, then of Larkhall-lane aforesaid, then of Chapel-street, Stockwell, then of High-street, Putney, then of No. 4, Montpelier-row, Lambeth, all in Surrey, also of Brook-green-lane Hammersmith, Middlesex, and also of No. 25, Moorgate-street, City, Civil Engineer.'[5]
1846 of Hoxton. Exhibited a model of a moving platform railway[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Mechanics Magazine 1824/06/26
- ↑ Staffordshire Advertiser - Saturday 23 January 1836
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:14 April 1840 Issue:19846 Page:970
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:16 May 1843 Issue:20225 Page:1649
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:13 June 1843 Issue:20233 Page:2009
- ↑ The Engineer 1900/02/23