1832 admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons; mid-1830s working under Isambard Kingdom Brunel as engineer on the Great Western Railway and Taff Vale Railway; 1843-1847 engineering work in India, including on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway; 1849-1851 superintending inspector for the General Board of Health; 1855-1897 trustee and manager of Dowlais ironworks; 1856-1885 active in local politics in Merthyr Tudful; 1866-1871 royal commission on the coal trade; 1868-1869 high sheriff for Glamorgan; 1876 president of the British Iron Trade Association; published extensively on archaeology and genealogy
Epithet: engineer and antiquary
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