Corbet Woodall (gas engineer)

He was educated at the Congregationalist Crescent School in Liverpool, and followed his father and two older brothers in the coal gas industry.

[1] Woodall moved to London to work for the Woolwich Equitable Gas Company in 1859.

He returned to London in 1869 to become manager of the Phoenix Gas Company gasworks in Vauxhall, and became its chief engineer in 1872.

He became a justice of the peace in Bromley in 1911, received an honorary DSc from the University of Leeds in 1912, and was knighted for services to the gas industry in 1913.

His Grade II listed statue stands in the gas employees' war memorial garden in Twelvetrees Crescent.

Statue of Sir Corbett Woodall by Arthur George Walker in Twelvetrees Crescent memorial garden
The statue of Sir Corbett Woodall, with gas holders of Bromley Gas Works visible behind