Engineers & Designers

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Name	Born-Died
Adams, William	1823-1904
Armstrong, Joseph	1816-1877
Aspinall, John Audley Frederick	1851-1937
Beames, Hewitt Pearson Montague	1875-1948
Beattie, Joseph Hamilton	1808-1871
Billinton, Lawson Butzkopfski	1882-1954
Billinton, Robert John	1844-1904
Bromley, Massey	1846-1884
Bulleid, Oliver Vaughan Snell	1882-1970
Chalmers, Walter	1873-1957
Churchward, George Jackson	1857-1933
Collett, Charles Benjamin	1871-1952
Cooke, Charles John Bowen	1859-1920
Cox, Ernest Stewart	1900-1992
Craven, John Chester	1813-1887
Cudworth, James I'Anson	1817-1899
Dean, William	1840-1905
Deeley, Richard Mountford	1855-1944
Drummond, Dugald	1840-1912
Fairburn, Charles Edward	1887-1945
Fowler, Henry	1870-1938
Gooch, Daniel	1816-1889
Grange, Kenneth Henry	1929-2024
Gray, John	1810-1854
Gresley, Herbert Nigel	1876-1941
Hawksworth, Frederick William	1884-1976
Hill, Alfred John	1862-1927
Holden, James	1837-1925
Holden, Stephen Dewar	1870-1918
Holmes, Matthew	1844-1903
Hoy, Henry Albert	1855-1910
Hughes, George	1865-1945
Ivatt, Henry Alfred	1851-1923
Ivatt, Henry George	1886-1976
Jarvis, Ronald Guy	1911-1994
Johnson, Samuel Waite	1831-1912
Kirtley, Thomas	1811-1847
Lemon, Ernest John Hutchings	1884-1954
Mansell, Richard Christopher	1813-1904
Marsh, Douglas Earle	1862-1933
Maunsell, Richard Edward Lloyd	1868-1944
McIntosh, John Farquharson	1846-1918
Park, John Carter	1822-1896
Peppercorn, Arthur Henry	1889-1951
Pollitt, Harry	1864-1945
Raven, Vincent Litchfield	1859-1934
Reid, William Paton	1854-1932
Riddles, Robert Arthur	1892-1983
Robinson, John George	1856-1943
Stanier, William Arthur	1876-1965
Stirling, James	1835-1917
Stroudley, William	1833-1889
Thompson, Edward	1881-1954
Trevithick, Francis	1812-1877
Urie, Robert Wallace	1854-1937
Wainwright, Harry Smith	1864-1925
Watkin, Alfred Mellor	1846-1914
Webb, Francis William	1836-1906
Wheatley, Thomas	1821-1883
Worsdell, Thomas William	1838-1916
Worsdell, Wilson	1850-1920