Category: Biographies

Thomas R Allinson (1858-1918)

Doctor, Healthy Eating Activist and Miller Thomas R Allinson was a British doctor, dietetic reformer, vegetarian activist and a miller. ...

Petra Kelly (1947-1992)

Petra Kelly is linked to renewable energy through her connections to the Green Party and anti-nuclear movements. These anti-nuclear movements...

Jeanette Gitobu

Jeanette Gitobu is currently the director of the Women in Wind Global Leadership Program, which promotes the expansion of women...

‘As you like it’ – Nathanael Hodge

The magazine ‘As you like it’ was created for the staff of Joseph Rank Ltd in the 1920s. They provide...

Eccentric millers of old – Rex Wailes

Arthur Pratt French, 1920 – FREN-1116094 The attention of the antiquary has been attracted by the old-time miller. Apparently he dabbled in the...

Windmills of Nantucket – Rex Wailes

In 1929 Rex Wailes visited the island of Nantucket during his trip to the USA and Canada. This is his...

Hettie Jones

The last Melin Bompren Miller The county of Ceredigion, corresponding largely with that of Cardiganshire in Wales, is considered a...

John Smeaton F.R.S (1724-1792)

By his definition, John Smeaton was not a millwright but a ‘civil engineer’. However, his contributions to millwrighting are too...

John Rennie (1761-1821)

John Rennie was born in 1761 in East Lothian in Scotland. Rennie showed a natural taste in engineering at a...

Vincent Pargeter (1943-2015)

Vincent was born in Islington in late 1943. After attending school, he worked in Westminster Bank from 1961 until 1969....

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