Thomas Boverton Redwood

Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood FRSE FIC FCS FGS FRSA MIME (1846–1919) was a 19th-century British chemical engineer remembered as a pioneer of the petroleum industry.

He was born in London on 26 April 1846, the eldest of eight children to Prof Theophilus Redwood (1806-1892), originally from Boverton in South Wales, and his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth Morson, daughter of Thomas Newborn Robert Morson who owned a London pharmaceutical firm.

He studied chemistry at University College, London gaining a doctorate (DSc with Honours).

His proposers were Sir James Dewar, William Dittmar, Alexander Crum Brown and Robert Rattray Tatlock.

The Daimler was custom-built in Coventry to his own specification, being more powerful than average.