Does anyone know anything about Liddell and Simpson?
Liddell, of Benton Grange (exact location unknown), seems to have been some
kind of consultant colliery engineer. In 1853 he helped to recruit Simpson
as manager of the Countess Waldegrave's pits at Radstock in Somerset, and
when Simpson became ill soon after his appointment he recruited George
Clementson Greenwell as his replacement.
Simpson pleaded ill health within a few months of taking up the job at
Radstock and decided to return to Newcastle. He had, however, received an
offer of a better job and his employers seem to have thought that that was
the real reason for his departure. They insisted that he stay on until a new
manager was found, although he claimed that he was in such poor health that
this would put his life in danger. Does anyone know what became of him?
Keith Ramsey
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