Henry Trengrouse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry Trengrouse

British engineer

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1772

Place of Birth: Helston, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 14-Feb-1854

Profession: engineer

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Henry Trengrouse (18 March 1772 – 14 February 1854) the inventor of the ‘Rocket’ life-saving apparatus, was born in Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom. He was the son of Nicholas Trengrouse (1739–1814) by his wife, Mary Williams (d.
1784).
The family had long been the principal freeholders in Helston.
Henry was educated at Helston grammar school, and resided there all his life.
Samuel Drew was his intimate friend.
On 24 December 1807 he witnessed the wreck of the Anson frigate in Mount's Bay, when over a hundred lives were lost, and this disaster led him to devote his life and patrimony to the discovery of some means for saving lives at shipwrecks.
He spent much labour in attempting to devise a lifeboat, but produced no satisfactory results, and turned his attention to the ‘Rocket’ life-saving apparatus, an early form of the Breeches buoy.
In addition to this, Trengrouse was dismayed at the then common practice of burying victims of shipwrecks in common graves in unconsecrated ground near the site of the wreck, having seen the dead from the Anson buried in the dunes at Loe Bar.
He persuaded his local MP, Davies Gilbert, to work for a change in the law, and from 1808 the practice was abolished.



Description	British painter history painter and portrait painter
Date of birth/death	16 May 1761	9 April 1807
Location of birth/death	St. Agnes (Cornwall)	London
Work location	London
Authority control	: Q2481088 VIAF: 2739832 ISNI: 0000 0000 6659 8536 ULAN: 500011687 LCCN: nr91026286 NLA: 35394520 WorldCat