User:Biscuittin/List of lesser-known British engineers

List of lesser-known British engineers. This is a historical list of lesser-known British engineers, who do not yet have biographical articles.

A

 * Anderson, Harry Percival Harvey, with John McCullum and Steam Heat Conservation Company Ltd. See Anderson condensing system
 * Patent GB336599

B

 * Sydney Dawson Begbie, motor engineer.
 * Bell, Arthur Morton has published some books on locomotives.
 * Three patents, two obtained jointly with James Holden.

C

 * Carlton or Carleton, Thomas William. Partner with John Charles Taite, trading as Taite and Carlton.
 * Patent CA35069
 * Cowan, William, was born in Edinburgh in 1823 and died in Aberdeen on 10 March 1898. He was Locomotive Superintendent of the Great North of Scotland Railway from 1857 to 1883.
 * No known patents
 * Cumming, Christopher. Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Highland Railway from 1915 to 1922.
 * Patent GB190404179

D

 * Davis, Frederic Jocelyn.
 * Three patents, one obtained jointly with James Holden.

L

 * George Leather (1748-1818), proprietor of George Leather and Son
 * George Leather (1786-1870) son of George Leather (1748-1818)
 * John Wignall Leather, son of George Leather (1786-1870)

M

 * McCullum, John, with H.P.H. Anderson and Steam Heat Conservation Company Ltd. See Anderson condensing system. The surname is spelt McCullum in the patent but some sources give McCallum.
 * Patent GB336599

P

 * Pettigrew, William Frank, was born in Glasgow on 24 January 1858 and died in Redhill, Surrey on 22 January 1941. He was Locomotive Superintendent of the Furness Railway, 1896-1918.
 * One patent, obtained jointly with Walter Reuben Preston.
 * Preston, Reuben Thomas
 * Twenty-four patents, two obtained jointly with James Holden.

R

 * Riekie, John
 * Fifteen patents, one with John F. McIntosh.
 * Russell, Frederick Vernon (1870-1942). Chief draughtsman at the Stratford Works of the Great Eastern Railway.
 * Six patents, four obtained jointly with James Holden.
 * Ruthven, Archibald St Clair. This may be Archibald St Clair Ruthven (1842-1925) or his son of the same name (1875-1951).
 * Two patents, with John F. McIntosh.
 * Ruthven, John Folds (born 1820), was Locomotive Superintendent of the Great North of Scotland Railway from 1855 to 1857.
 * No known patents
 * Ruthven, Morris West (born 1812), son of John Ruthven (born 1783) and Mary West.
 * Scotch patent dated 28 March 1839 "for improvements in boilers for generating steam..."

T

 * Taite, John Charles. Partner with Thomas William Carlton (or Carleton), trading as Taite and Carlton, engineers and commission agents.
 * Eighteen patents, two obtained jointly with James Holden.


 * Tiddeman, Edmund Spenser, was related (by marriage) to The Spooners of Porthmadog
 * Six patents, two obtained jointly with James Holden.

W

 * Wigram, Reginald
 * Two patents, obtained jointly with James Thompson Marshall.