Jeremiah Head

Who was Jeremiah Head?

Jeremiah Head was a British mechanical engineer.

He was apprenticed in 1852 at the works of Robert Stephenson and Co, Newcastle upon Tyne. He was manager of the Steam Plough Works of John Fowler and Co 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 Co, and erected the Newport Rolling Mills, Middlesbrough, for the manufacture of iron plates. He introduced a plan of profit-sharing with his workmen; no 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.

He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.