Thomas Lodwick Miller
Thomas Lodwick Miller (1860-1941) of Fawcett, Preston and Co
1901 Living at 8 Cheltenham Avenue, Toxteth: Thomas Lodwick Miller (age 41 born Liverpool), Consulting Electrical Engineer and Employer. With his wife Annie Sophia Miller (age 33 born Scotland) and their son William Conley Miller (age 1 born Liverpool). One servant.[1]
1942 Obituary [2]
THOMAS LODWICK MILLER, O.B.E., after serving his apprenticeship from 1875 to 1880 with Messrs. Fawcett, Preston and Company in Liverpool, remained with that firm as draughtsman, being engaged principally in hydraulic and pumping engine machinery, and on the design and work for several large cotton-pressing factories in India; he also designed the first "Watson Cyclone" cotton presser and gave lectures on it to students at Liverpool University.
In 1887 he was elected a Member of the Institution, and three years later he established a business as a consulting engineer, specializing in electrical work. His advice was extensively sought in connection with electric lighting and power installations for Bootle town hall, district, and tramways, and for similar work at Hereford, Loughborough, and other towns; he was appointed consulting engineer to the Hoylake and West Kirby urban district council in 1900.
One of his most important works, the contracts for which were carried out between 1919 and 1925, was the modernizing of a sugar refinery at Taikoo, Hong Kong, for Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, and the design and supervision of the construction of electrical plant for driving the refinery and the adjoining dockyard; he also reported on cargo-handling appliances at Shanghai, Hankow, and Canton.
During the war of 1914-18 he served on the Liverpool Munitions of War Committee, first as secretary and later as general manager and secretary, with control of six national shell factories, including a shell-forging and a cartridge-case factory. In addition he was responsible for the work of two semi-national factories and eight contractors engaged on machining shells; he was awarded the O.B.E. in recognition of his services in this direction.
Mr. Miller, who was also a Member of the Institutions of Civil and Electrical Engineers, retired in 1928. His death occurred on 21st May 1941, in his eighty-second year.
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- ↑ 1901 Census
- ↑ 1942 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries