Thomas Yeoman ( 1708 - 1781 )

Birth: 1708 Death: Castle Street, Leicesterfields, London (24 January 1781) Profession: Surveyor, mechanical engineeer Education: Career: Reported on Edward Cave's cotton mill in Northampton, 1742; erected the machinery for the world's first water powered cotton mill beginning operations on the banks of the River Nene at Northampton in 1743; surveyed the River Frome for the Stroudwater Canal schem in 1755.