Henry Gustav Simon

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Henry Simon (1835–1899), founder of Henry Simon Ltd. and Simon Carves Ltd., industrialist and inventor, was born Gustav Heinrich Victor Amandus Simon at Brieg, Silesia, then a province of Prussia, on 7 June 1835, the son of Friedrich Gustav Simon (1807–1867), a Jewish civil servant and railway director, and his wife, Antonie Theodora.

His father was a businessman, and director of one of the first German railways, whilst his mother found acclaim as a novelist. Yet it was his uncle, Heinrich Simon, who had one of the biggest impacts on Henry’s life impressing his democratic ideals on him. Henry would follow his uncle into exile after Heinrich’s actions during the 1848 revolution meant he had to flee to Switzerland. Whilst in Switzerland Henry Simon would gain his engineering diploma from the Swiss Federal Technical College in Zurich in 1859.

After this stay in Switzerland, Henry Simon moved to Manchester in 1860 where he was appointed superintendent and resident engineer for railways ..

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