William Wouldhave
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William Wouldhave (1751–1821) is a rival of Lionel Lukin for recognition as inventor of the lifeboat. His tombstone (erected thirteen years before Lukin’s) describes him as: ‘Inventor of that invaluable blessing to mankind the Lifeboat’..... William Wouldhave was born in Liddle Street, North Shields, Northumberland in 1751 and baptised in Christ Church then in the parish of Tynemouth. He was apprenticed as a house painter before moving to become parish clerk in South Shields. Wouldhave married with Hannah Crow on 1 March 1775 at the parish church of St Hilda, South Shields..... -
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