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Fereday Smith's management, the profit from the canal and the collieries increased considerably. He continued in his post when the control of the business passed from the Trustees to the Bridgewater Navigation Company in 1872 but retired when the
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Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and physics in 1835. He then went to Germany to study mining and geology, after which he returned to Staffordshire where he gained practical experience of mining and surveying. At the beginning of 1837 he was working as an engineer on the
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Fereday Smith's influence in the business increased after Loch's death in 1855. From that time he was in effect the general manager of the undertaking, Loch's successor
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