James William Bennett (1850-1909)
Obituary 1909 [1]
. . . born at Great Grimsby in 1850, his father being a member of the well-known firm of Bennett and Sons of that place. He was educated at Nottingham, and in 1864 commenced an apprenticeship with Charles Sacre, chief engineer of the M. S. and L. Railway Company . . . in 1897 joined the firm of John Birch and Co, London, of which up to the time of his death he was a managing director . . . [more]