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Messrs WILLIAM COX AND ARTHUR WILLIAMSON A partnership by the name of Messrs Cox and Williamson opened the first telephone exchange in Plymouth in 1881. It has been impossible to trace anything about these two gentlemen locally.. However, there are two likely candidates in the 1881 census. A Mr William Henry Cox of 28 Whimple Street, Plymouth, was an electro metallurgist involved with plated ware. He was born in Birmingham in 1839. And at number 9 Radnor Place lived Mr Arthur Henley (not Henry) Williamson, who was an electrician dealing with telephone apparatus. He was born in Sherborne, Dorset, in 1855. It would seem that Mr Cox and his family moved to Brighton, where in 1891 he was a silver plater and gilder, but Mr Williamson, who was unmarried, may be the one who was living with Mr Fred Hellard at Teddington in 1891. If you are able to cast any light on these two gentlemen, especially in terms of their place and date of death, please reply to brianmoseley@plymouthdata.info. Please do not place any attachments with your initial e-mail as unannounced messages with attachments are deleted without being read in case they contain a virus. Thank you for your assistance.
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