Thomas Turley
Thomas Turley (1866-1942)
1943 Obituary [1]
THOMAS TURLEY was born in 1866 near Bilston, Staffs, and spent almost the whole of his working life in his native county. He was educated privately and received his technical education at the Dudley and Birmingham Technical Schools. After serving a four years' apprenticeship with Messrs. Thomas Turley and Sons, pattern makers and founders, he became a pupil in 1887 of Mr. Walter Bagshaw, consulting engineer.
During the next two years he gained experience as junior draughtsman with Messrs. Thomas Piggott and Company, Ltd., of Birmingham, and was then appointed draughtsman at the Earl of Dudley's Castle Mill Engineering Works, Tipton, and held this position for eleven years until 1903, when he became mechanical engineer and head of the firm's drawing office.
Since 1899 he had combined these duties with that of lecturer in machine construction and drawing, and in building construction, at Dudley Technical School. In 1916 he resigned both these appointments and for nearly twenty years held the position of manager of one or more flour mills. Mr. Turley had lived in retirement since 1934 until his death which occurred at Emsworth, Hants, on 13th May 1942.
He had been a Member of the Institution since 1909.