REFERENCES
- A. W. Skempton and E. C. Wright, "Early Members of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers", Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol. 44 (1971–72), pp. 23–42.
- "The Early Smeatonians", Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol. 18 (1938), pp. 101–110.
- N. R. Wright, John Grundy of Spalding, Engineer, 1719–1783: his life and times (Lincolnshire County Council, Lincoln, 1983); A. W. Skempton, "The Engineering Works of John Grundy", Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, Vol. 19 (1984), pp. 65–82.
- For the purchase by Banks and the 1918 sale, see A. P. Woolrich, "John Farey and the Smeaton Manuscripts", History of Technology, Vol. 10 (1985), pp. 181–216 (pp. 183–184).
- Wright, op. cit. (3), p. 18.
- Woolrich, op. cit. (4), p. 184 and note 9.
- Skempton, op. cit. (3), p. 65 and note 6. This catalogue has not been consulted for the purposes of the present paper.
- Quoted from Woolrich, op. cit. (4), p. 184. Skempton, op. cit. (3), p. 65, speaks of 'probably ten' volumes having once existed, Wright, op. cit. (3), p. 18, of 'fifteen'.
- A good number of these were of course printed at the time, and survive in printed copies, as indicated above. It is notable that practically every item listed under Grundy's name in A. W. Skempton's British Civil Engineering Literature 1640–1840: a bibliography of contemporary printed reports, plans and books (Mansell, London, 1987) is represented in the Brotherton Collection's manuscript volumes in one form or another. The two exceptions, Skempton nos. 611 and 612, dating from 1741, are no doubt represented in Vol. II in the Institution of Civil Engineers library (which covers the years 1741–66).
- Op. cit. (3).
- In this and the following quotations I have expanded all abbreviations except the ampersand.
- This date conflicts with those normally given for Grundy's two marriages. According to Wright, op. cit. (3), pp. 19 and 20, and Skempton, op. cit. (3), p. 65, his first wife Lydia died in 1764, and it was not until May 1766 that he married his second wife, Ann Maud.
- Wright, op. cit. (3), p. 2, notes that 'One of John Grundy, Snr's first jobs of which we know was to survey the estate of a local landowner, the rich Mr Jennens of Gopsall Park near Congerstone', this being the father of the Charles Jennens who rebuilt the house.
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