Parkin Jeffcock
Parkin Jeffcock, C.E. , was a mining engineer who died trying to effect the rescue of miners during the Oaks mining disaster which eventually killed more than 350 people.
Parkin was born at Cowley Manor in Ecclesfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, now a part of Sheffield onOctober 1829, the son of John Jeffcock J.P. and his wife Catherine Lady of the Manor of Darley. He intended to go to Oriel College, Oxford for holy orders, he instead entered existing collage for civil engineers at Putney, which under the presidency of the then Duke of Cambridge and the principalship of the Rev. B.M. Cowrie, was doing good work for that profession. In 1850, after this training at the College for Civil Engineers, he was articled to George Hunter, a colliery viewer and engineer of Durham. He made rapid progress in his profession, and in 1857 he became a partner of J.T. Woodhouse, a mining engineer and agent based in Derby. He moved in 1860 to Duffield, a town just north of Derby.
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