Beldam, Asplan (1841–1912), marine engineer, was born in Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire, on 5 October 1841, the eldest son in the family of eleven children of William Beldam, farmer and victualler, and his wife, Mary Peat. After serving an apprenticeship with Kitson, Thompson, and Hewitson...
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William Ronald Braithwaite
Braithwaite, John, the elder (bap. 1760, d. 1818), engineer and diver, was baptized at St Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, on 20 July 1760, the second son of five children of William Braithwaite (bap. 1732, d. 1800), whitesmith and engine maker, and Mary Crowther (...
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Brierly, Sir Oswald Walters (1817–1894), marine painter and naval engineer, was born at Chester on 19 May 1817, the son of Dr Thomas Brierly (d. in or before 1872), a physician and amateur artist. After schooling in Chester, he became a pupil at ...
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Burney, Sir (Charles) Dennistoun, second baronet (1888–1968), marine and aeronautical engineer, was born in Bermuda on 28 December 1888, the only son among the three children of Sir Cecil Burney, first baronet (1858–1929), later admiral, and second in command of the Grand Fleet...
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Bushnell, Bertram Harold Thomas [Bert] (1921–2010), sculler and marine engineer, was born on 3 September 1921 at the Boat House, Wargrave, Berkshire, the second of two sons of John Henry Bushnell, king's waterman and boat builder, and his wife, Lena, née Simmons. He left ...
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Deane, Charles Anthony (1796–1848), diver and inventor of diving equipment, was born in September 1796 at 53 Hughes Fields, Deptford, Kent, and was baptized at St Nicholas's Church, Deptford, on 2 October 1796, the son of John Deane (bap. 1766, d. 1830)...
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Denton, Anthony Albert [Tony] (1937–2001), marine engineer, was born on 14 March 1937 at a nursing home at 37 Huddersfield Road, Barnsley, the eldest son of Walter Granville Denton (1906–1970) and his wife, Evelyn Truelove, née Shaw (1908–1977). Walter Denton was at the time a motor mechanic at the ...
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Cherry Drummond
Drummond, Victoria Alexandrina (1894–1978), marine engineer, was born on 14 October 1894 at Megginch Castle, Errol, Perthshire, the second of four children of Captain Malcolm Drummond of Megginch (1856–1924), groom-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, and his wife, Geraldine Margaret (née Cherry; 1865–1956), the sixth of seven daughters of ...
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Michael Fry
Graham, James, sixth duke of Montrose (1878–1954), marine engineer and Scottish nationalist, was born on 1 May 1878 at 35 Chester Square, London, the eldest of five children of Douglas Beresford Malise Graham, fifth duke of Montrose (1852–1925), and his wife, Violet Hermione (1854–1940)...
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Charles V. Betts
Hancock, Norman (1916–2003), naval architect, was born on 6 March 1916 at 5 Home Park, Plymouth, the only son of Louis Everard Hancock, a ship fitter in Devonport dockyard, and his wife, Rose Violetta, née Bowden. He attended Plymouth grammar school, joining Devonport dockyard...
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Charles W. Munn
Howden, James (1832–1913), marine and general engineer, was born on 29 February 1832 in Prestonpans, East Lothian, the son of James Howden and his wife, Catherine Adams. His father was a market gardener and his early schooling was received in Prestonpans parish school...
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Kendrick (née Boak), Mary Patricia (1928–2015), tidal engineer, was born on 2 May 1928 at 19 Curzon Street, Nottingham, the daughter of Charles Manley Boak (1875–1942), haulage contractor, and his wife, Dorothy Ellen, née Davis (1898–1973). Her father was born in ...
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Laing, Andrew (1856–1931), marine engineer, was born in Edinburgh on 31 January 1856, the son of George Laing, a builder and contractor, and his wife, Janet Thomson. It was thought that he would enter his father's business, and he was educated with this in mind. After attending the ...
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Morton, Thomas (1781–1832), shipbuilder and inventor of a ship-building slip, was born at Leith on 8 October 1781, the son of Hugh Morton, wright and builder. He appears to have worked for his father before establishing a shipbuilding business in Leith, which outlived him as ...
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Michael S. Moss
Napier, Robert (1791–1876), marine engineer, was born at Dumbarton on 18 June 1791, the eldest surviving son of James Napier, an iron-founder and engineer, and Jean Ewing. He had five younger brothers and a sister. Educated in Dumbarton, and destined for the ministry of the ...
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