Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,716 pages of information and 247,105 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Joseph Gordon Gordon

From Graces Guide

1851 Born in Westminster, son of Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon

1861 Lewis D B Gordon 46, civil engineer, Maria Gordon 48, Joseph Gordon 9, lived in Paddington[1]

1869-1873 Studied at the Royal School of Mines and at Freiburg

1876 Started work in mining and metallurgy which he continued for many years.

1883-9 Joseph Gordon Gordon was managing director of the Landore Siemens Steel Co[2]

1887 Carried on the business of R. S. Newall and Co with Charles Liddell when Newall retired[3]

1901 Associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers

1911 Joseph Gordon Gordon 59, civil engineer, employer, lived in London[4]

1933 Died in Westminster[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1861 census
  2. Civil Engineer records
  3. London Gazette 11 March 1887
  4. 1911 census
  5. National probate calendar