Shortt, William Hamilton (1881–1971), railway engineer and horologist, was born on 28 September 1881 at 22 Courthope Villas, Worple Road, Wimbledon, Surrey, the only son of Charles Henry Shortt (1852–1915), civil engineer, and his wife, Fanny Catherine Lise, née Dobson (1855–1950), sister of the poet ...
