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SIR RICHARD TANGYE (1833-1906)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 398 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR RICHARD TANGYE (1833-1906)  ,
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British manufacturer, was born at Illogan, near
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Redruth,
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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
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manual labour by a fracture of the right arm . His
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father then determined to give him the best
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education he could afford, and young Tangye was sent to the Friends' School at Sidcot,
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Somersetshire, where he progressed rapidly and became a pupil-teacher . Tangye was not long
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con-tented with this position, and through an advertisement in The Friend obtained a clerkship in a small
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engineering
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firm in
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Birmingham, where two of his brothers, skilled
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mechanics, subsequently joined him . Here Richard Tangye remained four years, obtaining a
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complete mastery of the details of an engineering business, and introducing the
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system of a Saturday
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half-
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holiday which was subsequently adopted in all
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English
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industrial
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works . In 1856 he started business in a small way in Birmingham as a hardware factor and commission agent . Ilis first customers were the Cornish mine-owners in the Redruth
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district, and, the business prospering, he was able before long to start manufacturing hardware goods on his own account, his two brothers joining him in the enterprise . The speciality of the brothers Tangye was the manufacture of machinery, and their
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hydraulic lifting jacks were successfully employed in the launching of the steamship "
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Great Eastern." In 1858 the firm, who now confined themselves to making machinery, built their own works, and shortly afterwards secured the
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sole right of manufacturing the newly invented
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differential
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pulley-block, thereby materially adding to their business, which came to include every kind of power-machine—hydraulic, steam,
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gas, oil and
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electricity . The business was subsequently turned into a limited
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company, and in 1894 J2ichard Tangye was knighted .

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A very good feature on Sir Richard, but it might be helpful to refer to the comprehensive biography by Stuart J. Reid - "Sir Richard Tangye", Duckworth and Co., London, 1908. Tom Richards
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