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 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Peter Stewart

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Peter Stewart (1834-1900)


1901 Obituary [1]

PETER STEWART died suddenly at Inverness on July 3, 1900. He was born in Glasgow on August 11, 1834. He served an apprenticeship to W. Cook and Co., and acquired a knowledge of mechanical drawing under the late Mr. Robert Harvey, whom he succeeded as teacher of that subject in the Glasgow Mechanics Institution.

After being a short time in the service of A. and W. Smith and Co., Mr. Stewart was appointed engineer to the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Co., Ltd., a position he occupied for upwards of thirty years.

He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1883.


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