Jonathan Hornblower
Engineer, Deceased Person
1717 – 1780
Who was Jonathan Hornblower?
Jonathan Hornblower was an English pioneer of steam power, the son of Joseph Hornblower and brother of Josiah Hornblower, two fellow steam pioneers.
Jonathan was born in Staffordshire on 30 October 1717, the eldest of the four children of steam pioneer Joseph and Rebecca Hornblower. Joseph Hornblower was an installer of Newcomen steam engines in the Cornish mines and taught his children the same trade. Jonathan eventually took over from his father around 1740 and moved to live and work in Cornwall, where he built and installed Newcomen engines at several mines.
He married Ann Carter of Broseley, Staffordshire, a lawyer's daughter, on 16 July 1843 and fathered thirteen children, all given biblical names beginning with J. Both Jabez Carter Hornblower and Jonathan Hornblower Jnr were to continue the family's steam engineering tradition. Jonathan Snr died in Cornwall on 7 December 1780.
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- Born
- Oct 30, 1717
Staffordshire - Parents
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 7, 1780
Cornwall
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on July 23, 2013
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