Biles, Sir John Harvard
(1854–1933)
- Eustace Henry William Tennyson-D'Eyncourt
- , revised by Andrew Lambert
Extract
Biles, Sir John Harvard (1854–1933), naval architect, was born at Portsmouth on 6 January 1854, the third son of John Biles (1816–1902), an official at Portsmouth Dockyard, and his third wife (of four), Margaret (1824–1884), second daughter of John Groombridge...