Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,359 pages of information and 246,083 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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Major William Henry Noble (1834-1892) RA
Born at County Fermanagh the son of Robert Nobel, Rector of Athboy.
Associate member of the Ordnance Select Committee
Second officer of the Experimental Branch at Woolwich.
1861 Married Emily Marriott and had two sons and four daughters
1876 One of the British judges at the International Exhibition at Philadelphia
by 1889 was in charge of the ordnance factory at Waltham Abbey.
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