Jeremiah Head was a British mechanical engineer.

He was apprenticed in 1852 at the works of Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson FRS was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son.-Early life :He was born on the 16th of...

 and Co, Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne

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He was manager of the Steam Plough Works of John Fowler

John Fowler (agricultural engineer)

John Fowler was an English agricultural engineer who was a pioneer in the use of steam engines for ploughing and digging drainage channels...

 and Co in Leeds

Leeds

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, 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

Middlesbrough

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, 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

Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in north east England. It is the major settlement in the unitary authority and borough of Stockton-on-Tees. For ceremonial purposes, the borough is split between County Durham and North Yorkshire as it also incorporates a number of smaller towns including...

, and in 1891 the New British Iron Works

British Iron Company

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 at Corngreaves.
He moved his practice to Westminster in 1894.

He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Institution of Civil Engineers

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Family

He married Rebecca Ingram Wrightson, on 26 September 1860; they had children:

• Mary Ingram Head (16 October 1862 - 5 November 1904)
• William Howard Head (b. 28 September 1864
• Archibald Potter Head+ (b. 4 August 1866
• Alfred Wrightson Head (7 February 1868 - 30 May 1872)
• Rebecca Helen Gilchrist Head (11 June 1870 - 17 October 1889)
• Kathleen Campbell Head (b. 4 Jul 1872 -)
• Benjamin Wrightson Head (b. 12 May 1875 -)