When, on the 29th June 1849, the SS Orion was wrecked off Portpatrick, the Reverend Clark, a survivor, wrote to the Reverend Edward Lyon Berthon: "Can not you think of a way in which boats, enough for all on board, be stowed on a passenger steamer without inconvenience?".
Edward Lyon Berthon (February 20, 1813 – October 27, 1899), English inventor and clergyman, was born in London, the son of an army contractor and descendant of an old Huguenot family.
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Berthon therefore did not complete the patent and the idea was left for Francis Smith to bring out more successfully in 1838.
The abbey survives today not least due to the efforts of the Reverend Edward Lyon Berthon during the 19th century who set about restoring it to some of its former glory.
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