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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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.

Edward Newman Fourdrinier

From Graces Guide

c1800 Born in Middlesex son of Henry Fourdrinier

1851 Edward Newman Fourdrinier 50, mining agent, was lodging in Sunderland; also with him were Anne Fourdrinier 48, Frederic Boyle Fourdrinier 15, Douglass Fourdrinier 8[1]

1851 of 38 Barclay Street, Sunderland. Exhibited at the Great Exhibition a safety apparatus he had invented, for preventing loss of life and property when a rope or chain breaks in shafts of mines and collieries.

1858 Died in Lambeth[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1851 census
  2. BMD