of Robey and Co, Globe Iron Works, Lincoln, and of Clench and Co.
1838 Born in Poole
1861 Living in Lambeth, surveyor of taxes
1862 Married in Lincoln
Became a director of the engineering company of Robeys.
1866 Frederick Clench, of the city of Lincoln, Gentleman, was one of the Managers of Robey and Co.'s, Perseverance Iron VVorks (Limited) when he was appointed by the debtors court of a trustee of the affairs of Thomas Richard Storey, a merchant and factor[1]
1871 Frederick was a manufacturing engineer employing 500 men[2]
1877 'DISTRESSING ACCIDENT AT LINCOLN.
One of the sons of Mr. F. Clench, manager and part proprietor of Messrs. Robey & Co., Perseverance Ironworks, Lincoln, was killed under very distressing circumstances on Saturday afternoon last. The deceased, Frank Mac'Dakin Clench, 10 years of age, was playing with his brother Charles, and Herbert Bellamy, son of Mr. P. Bellamy, architect, on Saturday afternoon, and about four o’clock they proceeded to the foundry together. After spending a little time in the gymnasium at the works, they went to the yard, where deceased gave chase to a cat, and his companions lost him. As he did not rejoin them, they searched and whistled and shouted for him, but receiving no answer, they thought he had left the works by another way, and accordingly went off the premises, each subsequently returning home. About five o'clock, however, the poor boy was found lying on the ground at another portion of the yard at the works, with the tire of a traction engine across his neck, and quite dead. An inquest was held in the Board-room of the works on Monday, before Mr. Coroner Lowe, when, the jury having viewed the body, which been moved on Saturday to the residence of Mr. Clench, Newland, the following evidence was taken;- ......'[3]
1881 The company was employing 700 men and 150 boys.[4]
1893 Frederick Clench and his son Frederick McDakin Clench retired from the partnership which traded as Robey and Co.[5]
Moved to Chesterfield, starting Clench and Co at the new Lincoln Works.
1900 Amalgamation of his business with that of Bryan Donkin as Bryan Donkin and Clench
1903 Establishment of the Lancashire and Midland Counties Vacuum Cleaner Co to build the vacuum cleaners at Lincoln works.
1903 'SPRING CLEANING EXTRAORDINARY. Those not initiated who stood round inspecting a small apparatus placed on a hand truck outside the L.D. and E. C. Railway Station on Tuesday last would not have thought that it represented an invention which certainly creates a domestic revolution so far as house cleaning is concerned. The invention - that of Mr H. C. Booth — has been taken up by the Vacuum Cleaner Company, Limited, one of whose directors is Mr Frederick Clench, of Chesterfield, and it is at the works Messrs Bryan Donkin and Clench, at Chesterfield that the apparatus is now being manufactured. The invention has only been perfected a few months, but already is installed in the Royal Palaces, the Houses of Parliament, by the Railway Companies and the chief London hotels. ....' [6]
c.1903 Became a director of the British Vacuum Cleaner Co
1905 Donkin and Clench was wound up; the Clenches left the company but they continued their connection with the vacuum cleaner company.
1911 Living in High Wycombe.
1923 Died in High Wycombe
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Sources of Information
- [1] Nedias newsletter #73