MENELAUS

William . b. Edinburgh 10 March 1818; apprentice to an engineer; engineer and millwright under Rowland Fother gill at Taff Vale and Abernant ironworks; engineer of the ironworks at Dowlais 1851 and manager 1856 to death; one of the first to use coal extensively; the first to commence making steel under the Be emer proce 1874; founder and president of South Wales institute of engineers; president of the Iron and steel institute 1875–6, awarded the Be emer medal 1881; M.I.M.E. 1857, on the council 1868, afterwards vice president; presented a free library and a collection of pictures worth £10,000 to Cardiff 1881–82. d. Tenby 30 March 1882. Proc. of Instit. of M.E. (1883) pp. 20–2; Red Dragon, June 1882 pp. 387–92, portrait .