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Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye[needs IPA] (24 November 1833 – 14 October 1906) was a British manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment.
16. Mai 2019 · When Richard Tangye died, he left an estate of £226, 319. He was certainly an immensely rich man, the owner of big houses in Kingston-upon-Thames and in Newquay. Yet it had all begun in humble circumstances, in a cottage in Illogan, two miles from Redruth, where Tangye was born on 24 November 1833.
ON November 24 the centenary occurs of the birth of Sir Richard Tangye, the most prominent of the five brothers who founded the well-known engineering firm of Messrs. Tangye, Ltd., of the...
Richard Tangye recorded dramatically in his autobiography how Brunel’s agent came to Mount Street: ‘One dark evening in the winter of 1856 [Richard’s chronology appears to be at fault], Brunel’s agent came to our little workshop, which was down an entry behind a bakers’ shop . and rang the bell.
The first step was to establish agencies at home and abroad, followed where possible by branch houses. Richard Tangye’s heroes were Cobden and Bright, with their belief in world-wide free trade, and throughout his life his trading policies actively endorsed his political principles.
Richard Tangye (24 November 1833 - 14 October 1906) was a British manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment. He was born at Illogan, near Redruth, Cornwall, the son of a small farmer Joseph Tangye (1798-1854) and his wife Ann (Nee Bullock).
SIR RICHARD TANGYE (1833-1906), British manufacturer, was born at Illogan, near Redruth, Cornwall, on the 24th of November 1833, the son of a small farmer. As a young boy he worked in the fields, but when he was eight years old he was incapacitated from further manual labour by a fracture of the right arm. His father then determined to give him ...
