Sir Richard Atwood Glass (1820 – 22 December 1873) was an English telegraph cable manufacturer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1869.
Glass was born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, in Southern England, the son of Francis Glass. He was educated at King's College London.[1] In 1846 with George Elliot, he provided capital for an insolvent wire-rope manufacturers Heimann & Kuper, and by 1851 the firm was trading as Glass, Elliott & Company. The company produced submarine communications cables and in 1854 ran a circuit from Denmark to Sweden and undertook the manufacture of long cables for the French Mediterranean Telegraph Company of J W Brett. The cables with a resin-insulated conducting wire protected by an armour of iron wire proved to be long-lasting, and in the later 1850s the company introduced anti-corrosive compounds to coat the finished cable. The firm merged with the Gutta-Percha Company in 1864, and Glass became managing director of the resulting Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company.[2] Glass's company provided half of the first transatlantic telegraph cable and all the cable laid by the Great Eastern in 1866. Glass was knighted for these services on 26 November 1867.[1][3]
^ abWilliam Retlaw Williams. The parliamentary history of the county of Worcester : including the city of Worcester, and the boroughs of Bewdly, Droitwich, Dudley, Evesham, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove and Pershore, from the earliest times to the present day, 1213-1897 ; with biographical and genealogical notices of the members
^Distant Writing - A History of the Telegraph Companies in Britain between 1838 and 1868
^ Anita McConnell, ‘Glass, Sir Richard Atwood (1820–1873)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, September 2004 accessed 16 August 2010
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Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Richard Glass
richard, atwood, glass, 1820, december, 1873, english, telegraph, cable, manufacturer, conservative, politician, house, commons, from, 1868, 1869, 1866, engraving, illustrated, london, news, biography, editglass, born, bradford, avon, wiltshire, southern, engl. Sir Richard Atwood Glass 1820 22 December 1873 was an English telegraph cable manufacturer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1869 Richard Atwood Glass 1866 engraving The Illustrated London News Biography editGlass was born in Bradford on Avon Wiltshire in Southern England the son of Francis Glass He was educated at King s College London 1 In 1846 with George Elliot he provided capital for an insolvent wire rope manufacturers Heimann amp Kuper and by 1851 the firm was trading as Glass Elliott amp Company The company produced submarine communications cables and in 1854 ran a circuit from Denmark to Sweden and undertook the manufacture of long cables for the French Mediterranean Telegraph Company of J W Brett The cables with a resin insulated conducting wire protected by an armour of iron wire proved to be long lasting and in the later 1850s the company introduced anti corrosive compounds to coat the finished cable The firm merged with the Gutta Percha Company in 1864 and Glass became managing director of the resulting Telegraph Construction amp Maintenance Company 2 Glass s company provided half of the first transatlantic telegraph cable and all the cable laid by the Great Eastern in 1866 Glass was knighted for these services on 26 November 1867 1 3 In the 1868 general election Glass was elected Member of Parliament for Bewdley He was unseated on 16 February 1869 when the election was declared void 4 Glass lived at Ashurst in Dorking Surrey He died on 22 December 1873 aged 53 of chronic Bright s disease at his home at South Stoneham Hampshire 5 References edit a b William Retlaw Williams The parliamentary history of the county of Worcester including the city of Worcester and the boroughs of Bewdly Droitwich Dudley Evesham Kidderminster Bromsgrove and Pershore from the earliest times to the present day 1213 1897 with biographical and genealogical notices of the members Distant Writing A History of the Telegraph Companies in Britain between 1838 and 1868 No 23191 The London Gazette 27 November 1866 p 6468 Leigh Rayment s Historical List of MPs Constituencies beginning with B part 3 Anita McConnell Glass Sir Richard Atwood 1820 1873 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edn Oxford University Press September 2004 accessed 16 August 2010External links editHansard 1803 2005 contributions in Parliament by Richard GlassParliament of the United KingdomPreceded bySir Thomas Winnington Member of Parliament for Bewdley1868 1869 Succeeded byJohn Pickersgill Cunliffe Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Richard Atwood Glass amp oldid 1135451288, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
