Jeremiah Head (11 July 1835

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– 10 March 1899

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) was a British mechanical engineer. He was apprenticed in 1852 at the works of Robert Stephenson and Co,

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. He was manager of the Steam Plough Works of John Fowler and Co in

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, where he invented a means of signalling by lamps to facilitate steam-ploughing at night. From 1868 to 1885, he worked, with Theodore Fox, the firm of Fox, Head and Co, and erected the Newport Rolling Mills,

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, for the manufacture of iron plates. He introduced a plan of profit-sharing with his workmen; no labour disputes arose. In 1864, he also founded the

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. In 1888 he laid out the Bowesfield Iron Works at

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, and in 1891 the New British Iron Works at Corngreaves. He moved his practice to Westminster in 1894. He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Family

He married Rebecca Ingram Wrightson, on 26 September 1860; they had children: * Mary Ingram Head (16 October 1862 – 5 November 1904) * William Howard Head (b. 28 September 1864 * Archibald Potter Head+ (b. 4 August 1866 * Alfred Wrightson Head (7 February 1868 – 30 May 1872) * Rebecca Helen Gilchrist Head (11 June 1870 – 17 October 1889) * Kathleen Campbell Head (b. 4 Jul 1872 -) * Benjamin Wrightson Head (b. 12 May 1875 -)

References

1835 births 1899 deaths Engineers from Ipswich {{England-engineer-stub