Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,689 pages of information and 247,075 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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1843 Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, son of Thomas Sopwith, a civil engineer, and his wife Jane[1]
1891 Mining engineer, living in Lichfield, with Catherine S Sopwith 39 , Anna Gwenmore Sopwith 11, George Ernest Sopwith 8, Sydney Sheldon Sopwith 4[2]
1894 Presided at the first general meeting that year of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers[3]
1920 Died in Lichfield[4]
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