Thomas Sopwith (geologist)

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Thomas Sopwith (1803–1879) was an English mining engineer born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

He was a founder of the Mining Record Office in 1838. He became a railway surveyor and worked with George Stephenson and Sir William Cubitt creating the French railway network. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1845.

His son was a civil engineer and his grandson, also called Thomas Sopwith, founded the Sopwith Aviation Company