Motor manufacturer and philanthropist. Born Worcester. Began work in a bicycle shop and designed the first Morris car in 1912. Founder of the Morris Motor Company and founder of the Nuffield Foundation and Nuffield College, Oxford. Although he married he had no children so his funds were available for endowments, etc., and, on his death at his Oxfordshire home, Nuffield Place, Nuffield, he was the last as well as the first Lord Nuffield.
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Lord Nuffield, William Morris
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Viscount Nuffield statue
This is one of only a handful of statues in London unveiled while the subject...
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Islington Tunnel
960 yards (878 metres) long, designed by James Morgan, built over the three years 1815 to 1818. Caroline's Miscellany has a good post.
3 memorials
Sir Nigel Gresley
Locomotive engineer. Born Edinburgh into a family that arrived with William the Conqueror and were granted a hereditary baronetcy in the early 17th century. Raised in Derbyshire. Rapidly rose from ...
2 memorials
John Kemp Starley
Inventor and industrialist, who sold the first recognizably modern bicycle. Starley went into business with William Sutton, with the intention of producing bicycles that were safe and easy to use. ...
1 memorial
Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners
Consulting engineering firm. Bruce and his brother Colin joined their father's firm in 1919 and 1923. John Wolfe Barry was already a partner. Bruce was knighted after WW2 and on the father's death ...
1 memorial
Harold Knox King, CBE, CEng, FICE, FIMun.E, FRICS
Harold Knox King was born on 24 March 1907, the second child of William Henry King and Williamina King. His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1907 in the Rochdale registration district, La...
1 memorial
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