Marshall Thomas Wilton Eady
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Marshall Thomas Wilton Eady (born Summer Hill, Sydney, Australia 18 November 1882; died Melbourne, Australia 8 December 1947) was an engineer He was the oldest child of William Wilton Eady, a native at the time, and a Scottish woman named Barbara Rose. When Eady's father died in 1892, the family moved to Melbourne, where his uncle, Sir William McPherson, cared for them.[1]
Eady was an engineering apprentice at Austral Otis before joining his uncle's firm, McPherson's Pty. Ltd., where he remained until his death.
McPherson died of a coronary occlusion at the wheel of his car in 1947. He was survived by his wife and three children.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Hamer, Barbara (1996). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- ^ "DIED AT CAR WHEEL". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 9 December 1947. p. 3. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
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