Tredgold

Tredgold, THOMAS, architect and engineer, was born at Brandon, near Durham, 22d August 1788. While apprenticed to a cabinetmaker, and while working as a carpenter in Scotland, he devoted his leisure time to the study of the principles of architecture and kindred subjects. From 1813 to 1823 he worked with his relative Mr Atkinson, architect to the Ordnance Board, and next commenced business on his own account as a civil engineer. He died 28th January 1829. Tredgold's scientific contributions to periodicals and also to the Encyclopædia Britannica range over a wide field; but his most valuable works are The Elementary Principles of Carpentry (4to, 1820; revised ed. by Hurst, 1871; and Tarn, 1886) and the Strength of Cast Iron (1821).