Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

W. H. Y. Webber

From Graces Guide

William Hosgood Young (1853-1923)

1853 Born in Teignmouth[1]

1881 William H.Y. Webber 28, engineering journalist, lived in Camberwell, with Sarah S. Webber 32, Caroline J.M. Webber 3, William A.J. Webber[2]

1901 He was on the editorial stall of the Journal of Gas Lighting; he had thirty years' experience of both producer and illuminating gas[3]

1911 William Hosgood Young Webber 58, consulting gas engineer in the gas supply industry, lived in Hampton with his daughter Dorothea Margaret Sims Webber 26[4]

1923 Died in St Austell, age 70[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. BMD
  2. 1881 census
  3. The Engineer 1901/06/07
  4. 1911 census
  5. BMD