Background
He was born in Cerne Abbas, Dorset.
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Samuel Groves
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Education
He was apprenticed to Gray and Davison for 10 years, and then set up his own business around 1849 with John Mitchell.
Career
They had works at 8 Great Marlborough Street, London, and 7 Street Ann’s Street, Manchester. Shortly afterwards his factory on Little Marlborough Street was destroyed by fire. The last business premises was 38 Euston Road, London.
He applied for several patents, including improvements in pneumatic apparatus for pumping or forcing air. and improvements in organs.
He died on 20 October 1858 at the Raven Hotel, Street Helen’s in the county of Lancaster. Street Paul’s Church, Cambridge
Penrhyn Parish Church, 1846
Parliament Street Methodist Church, Nottingham 1851
Town Hall, Street Helen’s, Lancashire
Street Mary Woolnoth 1851 Repairs and alterations
Southwell Minster 1854 Overhaul
Street Stephen"s (Huntingdonians) Chapel, Rochdale and Middleton 1854
Nottingham Mechanics" Institution 1854 repairs and enlargement
Baptist Church, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Street Chad’s Church, Rochdale 1855
Congregational Chapel, Mossley, Greater Manchester 1855
Bethel Chapel, Bury, Greater Manchester 1855
Dartford Church 1856
Great Meeting Chapel, Leicester 1856
Thornton Church, Yorkshire 1856
Saint Mary"s Church, Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire 1856
Mr George Simpson"s Musical Academy, High Street, Hanley, Staffordshire 1856
Saint Mark"s Church, Nottingham 1857
Street George"s Church, Leicester 1857 rebuild
Chirbury Church, Shropshire 1857
Vicar Lane Congregational Chapel, Coventry 1858 Finished by his apprentices Charles Lloyd and Lorenzo Valentine.
