Robert Seppings ( 1767 - 1840 )

Birth: Fakenham, Norfolk, England (1767) Death: Taunton, Somerset (25 September 1840) Profession: Shipbuilder Education: DCL (Oxford) Career: Apprenticed as a shipwright, Plymouth dockyard; invented "Sepping's blocks" for which he was granted £1000 by the Admiralty; Master Shipwright (1804); Surveyor to the Navy (1814); resigned at settled at Taunton (1832); memorial in chancel of St Mary's, Taunton Honours: Kt 1819 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 10/11/1814 Medals/Prizes: Copley Medal 1818.