The following information has been borrowed from an article within the the Lincolnshire Live news website headed 'Neglected grave of Victorian Lincoln industrialist Joseph Ruston to be spruced up.' "He deserves better." : -

"Joseph Ruston was born in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, in February 1835. He was apprenticed at George Wostenholme cutlery makers in Sheffield and in 1856 used an inheritance to buy into Lincoln engineering firm Burton & Proctor which becomes renamed as Ruston, Proctor & Co.

He was head of the company based at the Sheaf Ironworks in Waterside South, Lincoln, which made farm machinery and implements, steam engines and locomotives. By 1881, Ruston lived at Monk's Manor, in Greetwell Road, with wife Jane and their six daughters and one son. By the time of his death on June 10, 1897, at the age of 62, he employed 2,000 people.

An 1897 obituary to Ruston acknowledged his firm's global success: "From 1857 to 1897 the works produced 20,800 engines, 19,700 boilers, 10,900 threshing machines, and 1,350 corn mills, in addition to a number of other miscellaneous implements. It was largely by cultivating a foreign connection that these results were obtained." - Lincolnshire Live [1068] 31st March 2022