George Howard Patterson
George Howard Patterson (1859-1935), inventor of Bisto
1861 George Patterson 40, earthenware manufacturer, employing 60 men, 26 women, 32 boys and 15 girls, town councillor and local preacher in Methodist Reform..., lived in Gateshead with Martha Ellen Patterson 25, John Gerrard Patterson 4, George Howard Patterson 1[1]. George was son of Thomas Patterson, earthenware maker, presumably of Patterson and Co (of Gateshead).
1881 John G. Patterson 24, Master Potter, and George H. Patterson 21 were boarding in Gateshead[2]
1886 Married at Chester le Street to Elizabeth Annie Dickinson
1901 Patent on "Improvements in and relating to Holders for Pencils."
1901 George H Patterson 41, salt refining works manager, lived in Gateshead, with Eliz A Patterson 40, Joseph P Patterson 12, Fred W Patterson 9[3]
1903 Patent with Benjamin Scott on "Improvements in String Cutters."
1906 Patent with Alan Watson on "Improvements in Packages for Containing Granular or like Materials and in Spouts for the same."
Two later patents with Edward Slater.
1908 With James William McRobert invented Bisto
1911 G. H. Patterson is Works Manager of Cerebos.[4]
1911 Residing at Ivanhoe, Linden Grove, West Hartlepool: George Howard Patterson (age 51 born Gateshead), Salt Works Manager. With his wife Elizabeth Annie, one son and one daughter.[5]
1923 Patent with William Henry Collins and Cerebos Ltd on "Improvements in, or relating to, paper containers and cartons"
1926 G. H. Patterson, technical director, retires after almost thirty years with Cerebos.[6]