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Bennet Woodcroft FRS (20 December 1803 – 7 February 1879) was an English textile manufacturer, industrial archaeologist, pioneer of marine propulsion, a leading figure in patent reform and the first clerk to the commissioners of patents.〔http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v40/n12/pdf/scientificamerican03221879-181.pdf〕 == Biography == Woodcroft was born in Heaton Norris, Lancashire. He was the founder of the Patent Office Library, now part of the British Library, and of the Patent Museum, whose collections are now in the Science Museum. Woodcroft was later Professor of Machinery at University College London. He married Agnes Bertha Sawyer (7 September 1833 – 10 March 1903) in Hampstead in the September Quarter of 1866. She was born in Bosworth, Leicestershire. At this time he was 63 and she 33.〔Spear, 2012. ''Bennet Woodcroft - Patent information pioneer''. 〕 They had no children. On the 1871 census they lived alone with servants, on the 1881 census she is widowed living with the cook only. Woodcroft died in 1879 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.() His portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery.〔''Alphatecical Index of Patentees of Inventions''. 1854 reprinted 1969.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bennet Woodcroft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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