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William Jackson
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William Jackson

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Dedicatee (Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 1849 - 1915)
DescriptionWilliam Jackson 1849-1915 Engineer and Inventor lived here

HistoryEngineer and Inventor. Born in Inverurie he started his work in an iron foundry in Banff and was then apprenticed to Hall Russell and Co., shipbuilders. He joined the Scottish Assam Tea Company in 1870, where he designed and manufactured tea-processing machinery, before creating an engineering establishment at Thorngrove. He is also remembered as Director of Aberdeen Suburban Tramways.
Location InfoThorngrove, 500, Great Western Road
NotesImage Attribution: watty62, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons