Biography:
1. Henry Kingshott started work as a Labourer on the 3rd July 1796, earning 1/6d per day. He served as a Private in the Volunteer Company, and at some stage was transferred to West Sussex as a Cylinder Man (Supply 5/219 dated September, 1798). A Report dated the 8th May 1801 (Supply 5/221) confirmed that he was working as a Labourer and was a married man with no children. In this document anyone who was not an Artificer was described as a Labourer.
2. A Return of Artificers and Labourers dated the 3rd November 1801 (Supply 5/221) confirmed that he was still employed as a Labourer at the Cylinder Houses in Sussex. The same document said that since the cylinders have been out of repair, Kinshott had been employed in stacking timber in the yards, and levelling and preparing the ground where the cylinders were to be resited.
3. According to Supply 5/224 dated the 30th January 1806, Mr. Kingshott was employed as a Cylinder Man earning 2/-d. per day, and at that date he had 10 years' service .
4. At the 18th June 1807 (Supply 5/226) it was confirmed that Mr. Kingshott was still employed as a Cylinder Man and he was still earning 2/-d per day.
5. According to a Return dated the 23rd August 1808 (Supply 5/227) Mr. Kingshott was still employed as a Cylinder Man earning the same 2/-d per day.
6. Supply 5/228 dated the 1st September 1810, confirmed he was a Cyclinder man at 2/-d per day.
7. Still a Cylinder Man but then earning 2/8d per day, according to Supply 5/229 dated the 29th August 1812.
8. List of Employees and their Salaries (Supply 5/230 dated the 13th February 1814) confirmed that Henry was still a Cylinder Man and still earning 2/8d per day.
9. Return dated the 2nd March 1816 (Supply 5/230) recorded that Mr. Kingshott was still a Cylinder House Man; his length of service was given as 20 years. His age was 73, and it was recommended that he receive a daily superannuation of 2/8d. In the attached notes was the comment that Mr. Kingshott "both from his age and from the effects of his employ, is no longer capable of exerting himself." However, in a letter dated 6th March 1816, (Supply 5/ 200), Mr. Kingshott was finally awarded superannuation of only 2/-d per day for six days in the week, commencing the 1st April 1816.
10 A supplement to a document dated the 8th November 1818 (Supply5/231) listed persons who had been superannuated on account of their length of service in the departments. Among the recipients was "Henry Kingshott, Cylinderman" who received a pension of 12/-d per week which commenced on the 1st April 1816.
