Thomas George Newton
Thomas George Newton (1846-1920)
1921 Obituary [1]
THOMAS GEORGE NEWTON was born at Ramsgate on 12th September 1846.
He served a five years' apprenticeship with the Caledonia Steam Towing Co., Blackwall, and then started in business as a heating and ventilating engineer.
In 1882 he became works manager to the firm of Rosser and Russell, Hammersmith, and in 1884 he took up a similar position with the firm of Thomas Bradford and Sons, Laundry Engineers, Manchester.
In 1887 he was appointed engineer and works manager to the firm of W. Summerscales and Sons, Phoenix Foundry, Keighley, where he initiated and developed the Power Laundry Engineering branch of this firm's business.
In 1898 a London Office was opened of which he took charge, and in addition to his duties as engineer to the firm he was then responsible for all the work carried out in the south of England and Ireland, and on the Continent, until he retired in December 1906, one of the most important contracts during this period being the installation at the King Edward Sanatorium, Midhurst, Surrey.
His death took place at Acton on 27th July 1920, in his seventy-fourth year.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1897.