Richard Smith-Casson
Richard Smith-Casson (c1839-1907)
c.1839 Born in Talysam, Caernarfonshire, Wales
1871 Iron works agent, living in Dudley with his wife Mary Smith Casson 30[1]
1871 Head manager of the Earl of Dudley's Round Oak Ironworks at Dudley[2]
1891 Managing director of iron and steel works, living in Dudley (born 1834)[3]
1908 Obituary [4]
RICHARD SMITH-CASSON died at his residence, Roseville, Paignton, South Devon, on December 12, 1907, at the age of sixty-eight. For many years he was associated with the Round Oak Ironworks at Brierley Hill.
He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1877, and resigned in 1900. He contributed to the Journal a paper in 1884 on gas puddling and heating furnaces, with special reference to the Casson-Bicheroux system, and in 1895 one on small cast steel ingots.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1871 census
- ↑ The Engineer 1871/09/22
- ↑ 1891 census
- ↑ 1908 Iron and Steel Institute: Obituaries