Thomas Lewis (died 1764) was one of the founders of the Dowlais Ironworks, one of the largest ironworks in Wales. Born into a landed family from Llanishen...
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Thomas Lewis may refer to: Thomas Lewis (English cricketer) (died 1882), English cricketer Thomas Lewis (Australian cricketer) (1829–1901), Australian...
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Mina Miller Edison (category Thomas Edison)
American community activist and the second wife of inventor and industrialist Thomas Edison. She was a community activist in Fort Myers, Florida, known...
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David Davies (18 December 1818 – 20 July 1890) was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1886...
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Lewis Miller (July 24, 1829 – February 17, 1899) was an American businessman and philanthropist who made a fortune in the late 19th century as inventor...
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David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, PC (26 March 1856 – 3 July 1918), was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician. He was UK Member of Parliament...
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Lewis Latimer, the African American who enlightened Thomas Edison, Grist. Archived July 18, 2020, at the Wayback Machine. Biographiq (2008). Thomas Edison:...
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Tydfil in commemoration of Robert and Lucy Thomas, in part funded by her granddaughter's husband, William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr. Williams 2004. "Pioneers...
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Richard B. Mellon (category American industrialists)
B., was a banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Mellon family patriarch Thomas Mellon. He and his...
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Thomas Parker FRSE MICE (22 December 1843 – 5 December 1915) was an English electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. He patented improvements...
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developments in the design of water wheels and Francis hydroturbines by B. J. Lewis, J. M. Cimbala, and A. M. Wouden at opscience.iop.org/article/10...
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Humphrey Mackworth (category English industrialists)
Sir Humphrey Mackworth (Jan 1657–1727) was a British industrialist and politician. He was involved in a business scandal in the early 18th century and...
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John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods...
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Swain Lewis (1915–2013), American aviator Earl Lewis, American academic administrator Essington Lewis (1881–1961), Australian industrialist Fulton Lewis (1903–1966)...
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weekly illustrated newspaper, called The Graphic with his brother Lewis Samuel Thomas (d. 1872). Important to the project was the recruitment of a number...
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The Lewis Textile Museum was bequeathed to the people of Blackburn by a local cotton industrialist, Thomas Boys Lewis (1869–1942). The Lewis Textile Museum...
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flour mill industrialist William Winstead Thomas (1848–1904), American insurance company president and architect Sir William James Thomas, 1st Baronet...
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Henry De la Beche (redirect from Henry Thomas de la Beche)
Daughter Elizabeth (1819–1866), known as Bessie, married Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, a scientist, industrialist and long-serving Liberal MP for Swansea who campaigned...
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Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea (category British industrialists)
was a Welsh industrialist and politician from the Vivian family. Born at Singleton Abbey, Swansea, Henry was the eldest son of industrialist and MP John...
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members. John Ames (1738-1805), military officer and industrialist Oliver Ames Sr. (1779-1863), industrialist Oakes Ames (1804-1873), member of the United States...
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James Dunsmuir (July 8, 1851 – June 6, 1920) was a Canadian industrialist and politician in British Columbia. He served as the 14th premier of British...
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William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr GCVO JP DL (5 August 1837 – 27 August 1914), known as Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet, from 1896 to 1911, was a...
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took control of Dowlais Ironworks. Clark's wife, was a descendant of Thomas Lewis, one of the original Dowlais Ironworks partners. The family's interests...
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of the House of Lords (since 2010). Francesco Merloni, 99, Italian industrialist and politician, minister of public works (1992–1994), deputy (1976–1992...
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while another son, Joseph Ellison Adger Smyth, became a prominent industrialist. Smyth was an Old School Presbyterian. He wrote numerous books, and...
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John Aeron Thomas (24 November 1850 – 1 February 1935), was a British Liberal Party politician and industrialist. He was the son of Lewis Thomas, of Panteryrod...
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were often falsely convicted of crimes and then sold to farmers or industrialists. Heflin explicitly used white supremacist rhetoric to mobilize support...
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August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914) 6 September - Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher (d. 1884) 22 September - Thomas Charles Edwards...
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Ernest Georges West (1894–1968), was an industrialist; by virtue of his marriage to Winifred Mary, daughter of Thomas Eagleton, of St Louis, Missouri, West's...
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Fosburgh Kaiser Sr. (July 29, 1908 – December 7, 1981) was an American industrialist, who was Chairman of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation, the Kaiser...
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