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Carpenter from Sandwich, Kent who designed the regulator for wind and other mills in 1787 (patent 1628).
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Mason, Martin Thomas (1917-1969), engineer
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- 20 July 1917 – December 1969
Martin Thomas Mason was born in Fulham, London [1] to John Henry Mason, Teacher of Printing [2], and Edith Martha Rattee [3]. He married Gladys E C Clayden in Wandsworth, London in 1940 [4] and had 5 children.
His uncle, Thomas James Mason, bequeathed him his collection of Syd Simmons’ postcards, a notebook [SHOR-1118066] containing a list of the postcards, and a number of original black and white ink drawings by Karl Salsbury Wood.
He co-authored a book with Kenneth G Farries entitled The Windmills of Surrey and Inner London.
He died in December 1969
Mason, Thomas James (1881-1961)
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- Oct/Dec 1881 – 16 April 1961
Thomas James Mason was born in Lambeth, Surrey to Thomas James Mason, wheelwright [1], and Mary Jane Dugan Newlyn [2]. On the 1911 England Census he is noted as a Letter Sorter [3]. He married Eugenie Maud L Whiting in Camberwell, London in 1906 [4] and had 2 children; Leslie Thomas, born 1907 [5], and Ronald Edgar, born 1912 [6].
He was a friend of Syd Simmons who gave him copies of his windmill and watermill postcards.TJ Mason constructed a list of Syd’s postcards, using the latter’s numbering system, in a notebook. He also had original black and white ink drawings by Karl Salsbury Wood listed in the same notebook. The notebook [SHOR-1118066], postcards and Karl Wood drawings were given to his nephew, Martin Thomas Mason.
He died at Farnborough Hospital, Kent on 16 April 1961 [7].
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