Henry Massingham
Henry G. Massingham (c1851-1938)
Born the son of Henry Collyer Massingham
1928 'Bath will ever loom large in this history, because here resided the man who laid the foundation of the present great concern which supplies the city with electric current, and here was instituted an electric-lighting system before any electric lamps illumined the streets of London. That pioneer was Henry Massingham. He is still man of activity in his seventy-eighth year, and has just issued a very informative little book entitled "The Past and Future Developments of Electricity,"...'[1]
1937 'A most remarkable man is Mr. Henry Massingham, former proprietor of a boot and shoe establishment in Bath, and pioneer of electric lighting. He now lives at Brighton, and at the age of 86 has all the vitality of a very much younger man. Mr. Massingham's business house in Bath was at the left-hand entrance to the High Street end of the Corridor, and here it was that he introduced electric lighting to this city. His faith in what was then the new system of illumination was profound. The scepticism of other people was nothing to him. He knew the possibilities of electricity and was resolved to exploit them. So was started the electricity undertaking in Dorchester Street which has developed into the great concern which is the property of the municipality. Mr. Massingham is one of the foremost of "food reformers" in this country, a great advocate of simplicity of diet. Perhaps pursuance of such regime accounts for this young man's vigorous health.'[2]
1938 Died in Brighton[3]