Sydney Jessop Robinson
Sydney Jessop Robinson (1858-1928)
1858 Born at Sheffield the son of William Robinson, Steel Manufacturer
Educated King Edward VII School, Sheffield.[1]
1874-1880 Apprentice, William Jessop and Sons, Brightside Works.[2]
1880-1887 Assistant Manager, Steel Works, Rolling mills, forges, etc., William Jessop and Sons.[3]
1887-1891 Manager, Steel Works, Rolling mills, forges, etc., William Jessop and Sons.[4]
1890 elected member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.[5]
1891 elected a director of William Jessop and Sons Limited and appointed Joint Managing Director.[6]
1903 Joined the Board of the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway.[7]
1904 Appointed a director of J. J. Saville and Co when Jessops acquired a controlling interest.[8]
1905 Elected Master Cutler for the year 1905-1906.[9]
1906 Awarded Knighthood of the First Class of the Royal Swedish Order Wasu by the King of Sweden.[10]
1911 Living at 12 Tapton House Road, Sheffield: Sydney Jessop Robinson (age 53 born Sheffield), Managing Director, Steel Works - Employer. With his wife Ann Elizabeth and their daughter.[11]
1919 Retired as MD of William Jessop and Sons following the take over of Jessops by BSA, but remained on the Board as a consultant.[12]
1928 Died at home on 16 Dec 1928.[13]
See Picture Sheffield for portrait
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ School Magazine 1950 - list of distinguished old boys
- ↑ IMechE membership records
- ↑ IMechE membership records
- ↑ IMechE membership records
- ↑ IMechE membership records
- ↑ Sheffield Independent - 26 Mar 1891
- ↑ Railway News - 28 Feb 1903
- ↑ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - 3 Feb 1904
- ↑ Sheffield Evening Telegraph - 9 Aug 1905
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 15 Sep 1906
- ↑ 1911 Census
- ↑ Yorkshire Post - 19 Jul 1919
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 18 Dec 1928