William Gregory Norris
William Gregory Norris (1829-1911)
Took over the management of the Coalbrookdale Co in 1853.
1912 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM GREGORY NORRIS was born at Coalbrookdale on 17th December 1829.
Having been educated at Sidcot and Ackworth Schools, he entered the service of the Coalbrookdale Company in 1848, and became general manager in 1868.
In 1881, on the conversion of the company into a limited company, he was made managing director, and until the close of his life he remained an active director of this company. During the period of his connection with the works,. which date back to the early part of the seventeenth century, many interesting structures, etc., were produced, such as the chequered plate gates, shown at the 1851 Exhibition, and now in Town Hall Park, Warrington, also the Albert Edward cast-iron arch over the River Severn at Coalbrookdale, and many other cast-iron bridges in the country.
He devoted his legal and general business knowledge to helping in the public work of the district, and especially was this the case in educational matters.
His death took place at Coalbrookdale, Salop, on 8th December 1911, shortly before his eighty-second birthday.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1868; he was also a Member of the Iron and Steel Institute.
1912 Obituary [2]