Charles Bosworth Ketley
Charles Bosworth Ketley (c1854-1929)
1929 Obituary [1]
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY practised for many years as a consulting engineer and patent agent in Birmingham.
He was apprenticed with Messrs. May and Mountain and remained subsequently with the firm for seven years, becoming head draughtsman during the last three or four years of that time.
In 1875 he commenced practice on his own account. In early years he invented a machine for sorting and threading beads, which had previously been done by hand in Venice, and arranged a factory in Venice for carrying out this work.
He was also consulted in the manufacture of machinery for making cycle frames, iron fencing, metal bedsteads, agricultural machinery, brick-making machines, pipe-work machinery, etc.
Mr. Ketley had retired from business in recent years owing to ill-health, and he died on 12th March 1929, at the age of 75.
He became an Associate Member of the Institution in 1897.