Samuel Clegg

He was then apprenticed to Boulton and Watt, and at the Soho Manufactory witnessed many of William Murdoch's earlier experiments in the use of coal gas.

For some years he was actively engaged in the construction of gasworks, and in advising on the formation of new gas companies; but then joined an engineering establishment at Liverpool, in which he lost everything he possessed, and had to start he career again.

[citation needed] He was afterwards employed by the Portuguese government as an engineer, and in that capacity reconstructed the mint at Lisbon, and executed several other public works.

On his return to England railway works engaged his attention, but unfortunately he became involved with the atmospheric system of propulsion with the Samuda Brothers.

He died at Fairfield House, Adelaide Road, Haverstock Hill, Middlesex on 8 January 1861 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.