Henry Maudslay was a British machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor. He is considered a founding father of machine tool technology.
Henry was born at Woolwich in Kent on 22 August 1771[1]
. He was the son of Henry Maudsley and his wife, Margaret Laundey[2]. He began work aged 12 as a powder monkey at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.[1]
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"London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936"
London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P97/MRY/024 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1623 #4253990 (accessed 29 October 2021)
Henry Mandsley marriage to Margaret Laundey on 26 Jul 1763 in St Mary Magdalene,Greenwich, England.
↑ "England, Middlesex, Westminster, Parish Registers, 1538-1912," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KC8W-MWK : 13 March 2018), Henry Maudsley and Sarah Tindale, 1791, Marriage; from "Parish registers 1539-1945," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing St James, Piccadilly, Middlesex, England, City of Westminster Archives Centre, London; FHL microfilm 1,042,318.
↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVC-2Y15 : 13 December 2015), Henry Maudslay, 1831; Burial, Woolwich, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Greater London, England, St Mary Magdalene Churchyard; citing record ID 13564987, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
ODNB: R. Angus Buchanan, ‘Maudslay, Henry (1771–1831)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 accessed 20 Dec 2016
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