Person    | Male  Born 1/2/1843  Died 28/6/1928

Sir John Isaac Thornycroft

Categories: Benefactor, Engineering

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

The horses look totally out of control to us; no wonder the two daughters loo...

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John Ortelli

John Ortelli

The badly deteriorated Ortelli family vault is at St Mary's RC Cemetery, NW10. Inside this vault can be read: "In memory of Commendatore John Ortelli (late of Hatton Garden). Born 1830, died 1st N...

Person, Benefactor, Italy

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