Civil engineer. Son of Thomas and Mary Thornycroft. Born Rome. Studied and began work in Glasgow. Then studied at the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at South Kensington, while at the same time establishing a shipyard at Chiswick, financially assisted by his parents. Eventually the business was taken over by his eldest son who moved it to Southampton. Thornycroft went in semi-retirement to the Isle of Wight where he worked on surface-skimming hull designs that were used in WW1. His eldest daughter had been one of the first women to become a member of the Naval School and she assisted him with this work. He died on the Isle of Wight.
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Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
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Boadicea/Boudicca/Boudica
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Lady Lucy Gilbert
Lucy Agnes Turner was born on 14 November 1847 at The Grove, Yoxford, Suffolk, (now called Grove Park, Yoxford, Saxmundham, IP17 3HX), the youngest of the seven children of Thomas Metcalfe Blois Tu...
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Commercial Motor Users of Hackney
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Wheeler family
Benefactors active in 2013. We'd guess that they were then living in the house on which they erected the plaque. British History Online, quoting the parish book, says that a Mr Wheeler lived in t...
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St Saviour’s Dock
SE1, Thames Path
The Pool of London Partnership have put up a number of plaques, attached to walls in the normal fashion. We can't see why St Saviour’s D...
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