WAPP - Waltham Abbey Personnel Project

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Biography:

1. John Finlay, a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, was appointed Inspector of Gunpowder at the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Faversham and Waltham Abbey on the 31st January 1789, and was paid a salary of £200 per annum (Winters' Centenerary Memorial, p.115). 2. Finlay wrote to the Royal Mills at Waltham Abbey enquiring as to whether any staff would wish to learn the use of arms; they assembled and agreed On the 1st May 1794, 56 men enrolled for the Waltham Abbey Volunteer Company (Winters, op.cit. p.41). Further information on Finlay is given in the Faversham Gunpowder Personnel Records (p.32)