Thomas Dryden
of Grimshaw Street Foundry, Preston, Lancs - T. Dryden and Sons
1914 General engineer and millwright. Employees 165. [1]
1919 Obituary [2]
THOMAS DRYDEN was born at Preston on 9th June 1849.
He served an apprenticeship at Messrs. Whittaker's Foundry, Preston, of which his father was general manager before starting in business on his own account at the Grimshaw Sheet Foundry.
Mr. Dryden was an authority on cotton mills, and for many years had been consulting engineer for the North and Central Piers, Blackpool, and the West End Pier, Morecambe.
He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Borough of Preston in 1916; and he was one of the original members of the Preston and District Engineering Employers' Association.
His death took place in Preston on 6th December 1918, in his seventieth year.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1896.