Person Neilson; James Beaumont (1792 - 1865) Neilson James Beaumont 1792 - 1865 British Male Shettleston, Lanarkshire, England 22 June 1792 Queenshill, Kirkcudbrightshire 18 January 1865

Glasgow (1845)

Civil engineer, inventor of the 'Hot Blast' for which he took out a patent in 1828 Education: Left school at 14 and was apprenticed to an engineer to learn the trade, spent his spare time leraning English grammar, draeing and mathematics. Career: Appointed Engineer at an Irvine colliery (1814) at £70 per annum where he built a railway three miles long from the pit to the harbour at Irvine. Glasgow Gas Company formed (1817) and Beaumont applied successfully for the post of foreman at £90 per annum, then Manager of the Gas Works, where he worked for thirty years. Here he continued to study physics in his spare time and introduced many inmprovements, including fireclay retorts and fish tail gas burners. Married Barbara Montgomerie (18150. Son Walter Montgomerie Neilson (diaries held in Mitchell Museum, Glasgow containing details of building of Suez Canal) Fellow 15/01/1846 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 22 Jun 1792 - 18 Jan 1865 NA7634 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 14c9fa3d-571e-4f0f-adcb-ffd6b6a72ecc