141-161.
[4] Note to Lockhart's Life of Scott.
[5] This was stated to the present writer some years ago by
William Murdock's son; although there is no other record of the
event.
[6] See Lives of Engineers (Boulton and Watt), iv. pp. 182-4.
Small edition, pp. 130-2.
[7] Mr. Pearse's letter is dated 23rd April, 1867, but has not
before been published. He adds that "others remembered Murdock,
one who was an apprentice with him, and lived with him for some
time--a Mr. Vivian, of the foundry at Luckingmill."
[8] Murdock's house still stands in Cross Street, Redruth; those
still live who saw the gas-pipes conveying gas from the retort in
the little yard to near the ceiling of the room, just over the
table; a hole for the pipe was made in the window frame. The old
window is now replaced by a new frame."--Life of Richard
Trevithick, i. 64.
[9] Philosophical Transactions, 1808, pp. l24-l32.
[10] Winsor's family evidently believed in his great powers; for
I am informed by Francis Galton, Esq., F.R.S., that there is a
fantastical monument on the right-hand side of the central avenue
of the Kensal Green Cemetery, about half way between the lodge
and the church, which bears the following inscription:--"Tomb of
Frederick Albert Winsor, son of the late Frederick Albert Winsor,
originator of public Gas-lighting, buried in the Cemetery of Pere
la Chaise, Paris.
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