Willliam Brunton 1777 - 1851
- occupation:
- Engineer, Inventor, Railway engineer
- Nationality:
- Scottish; British
- born in:
- Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
son of watch and clock maker Robert Brunton of Dalkeith, Scotland
1790-1796 - employed at New Lanark cotton mills in the fitting shops
1796-1808 - employed at Soho works of Boulton and Watt
1808-1815 - employed at William Jessop's Butterley Iron Works, Derbyshire
1815-1825 -partner and engineering manager at the Eagle Foundry, Birmingham, works of Francis, Smith, Dearman and Brunton
1825 - moved to London
