Education
He was apprenticed in 1852 at the works of Robert Stephenson and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne.
He was apprenticed in 1852 at the works of Robert Stephenson and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne.
He was manager of the Steam Plough Works of John Fowler and Company in Leeds, where he invented a means of signalling by lamps to facilitate steam-ploughing at night. From 1868 to 1885, he worked, with Theodore Fox, the firm of Fox, Head and Company, and erected the Newport Rolling Mills, Middlesbrough, for the manufacture of iron plates. He introduced a plan of profit-sharing with his workmen.
Number labour disputes arose.
In 1864, he also founded the Cleveland Institution of Engineers. In 1888 he laid out the Bowesfield Iron Works at Stockton-on-Tees, and in 1891 the New British Iron Works at Corngreaves.
He moved his practice to Westminster in 1894. Mary Ingram Head (16 October 1862 - 5 November 1904)
William Howard Head (b.
28 September 1864
Archibald Potter Head+ (b.
4 August 1866
Alfred Wrightson Head (7 February 1868 - 30 May 1872)
Rebecca Helen Gilchrist Head (11 June 1870 - 17 October 1889)
Kathleen Campbell Head (b 4 July 1872 -)
Benjamin Wrightson Head (b 12 May 1875 -).
He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.