Thomas Avery

Thomas Avery (c. 1813–1894) was a scale or weighing machine manufacturer and local politician.

When a mercer and draper, Thomas's father, William Avery who died in 1843, inherited from within his own and his wife's family a long established weighing machine business which had begun in the early 18th century with the manufacture of steelyards.

Thomas withdrew his capital from the business in 1866 and devoted his energies to improving the then poor quality local government.

[1] He died in Edgbaston a few months after his wife —born Mary Ann Beilby— on 17 February 1894.

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