[1] Born in County Durham, he was the son of Henry George Liddell, who was later Rector of Easington.
Impressed by what he saw, he wrote to his friend Robert Stirling Newall, urging him to "Invent a machine for making wire ropes."
On Gordon's return to the UK in 1839, he formed a partnership with Newall and Liddell, registering R.S.
Newall and Company commenced making wire ropes for "Mining, Railway, Ships' Rigging, and other purposes".
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