Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye(24 November 183314 October 1906) was a British manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment.

Biography

Richard Tangye was born at Illogan, near Redruth, Cornwall, the fifth son in a family of six sons and three daughters of Joseph Tangye (1798-1854), a Quaker miner of Redruth, later a small shopkeeper and farmer, and Ann, née Bullock. As a young boy he worked in the fields, but when he was

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