J. P. Swinburne
From Graces Guide
Obituary 1907 [1]
Mr. J. P. Swinburne, which took place at Blaina, Mon., on Saturday last. He was in his sixty-eighth year, and for nearly a quarter of a century bad been identified with the mining enterprise of Wales. He was a native of Durham, but coming to Wales in the eighties, was for a long period engineer with the Powell Duffryn Co at New Tredegar. From thence he went to Blaina and became chief engineer with John Lancaster and Co, taking the leading part in the sinking of the No. 3 Griffin pit and of their Arrael Griffin Collieries near Abertillery. . . More
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