Stephen Henry Thomas
Stephen Henry Thomas was an English chemical engineer and industrialist.
He was born in Cornwall on 23 March 1813.
In the 1830s, he moved to Norway to take up a position in the Kåfjord copperworks. The copperworks was established in 1826 by Henry Woodfall and John Rice Crowe. Woodfall left in 1840. When Crowe resigned as director in 1844, Thomas was appointed as director, a post he held until 1857, and he continued the company's policy of looking after the welfare of the community.
Thomas left in 1857 to manage operations of the Copiapo Smelting Co in Chile. He returned to Norway in 1862, and settled in Christiania.
He died on 29 January 1869.
The above information is heavily condensed from here.
1857 'Mr. S. H. Thomas, formerly manager of the Alton Copper Works, but lately appointed to the management of the Copiapo Smelting Company, left on Thursday, by the Royal Mail steamer, Alagdalena, for the works in Chili, accompanied by Mr. Charles Cole and staff.'[1]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Royal Cornwall Gazette - Friday 25 December 1857