Edward Carbutt
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Sir Edward Hamer Carbutt, 1st Baronet (22 July 1838 – 8 October 1905) was an English mechanical engineer and a Liberal politician. He served as President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Biography
[edit]Carbutt was the youngest son of Francis Carbutt (1792–1874) of Chapel Allerton in Leeds. His father was a merchant and some-time mayor of Leeds and his elder sister Louisa Carbutt was an educationalist.[1] He was a linen and cloth merchant who became a justice of the peace, Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1848/1849, and a director of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway.[2]
Edward Carbutt went into business as a mechanical engineer in Leeds. When he was 24 (circa 1862) he entered into partnership with the engineer Robinson Thwaites (1811–1884) in the Vulcan Iron Works at Bradford.[3] Carbutt and Thwaites exhibited a 'Patent Double-Action Self-Acting Steam Hammer' at the 1862 London Exhibition.[4] Carbutt and Thwaites petitioned for a further patent 'for the invention of improvements in hammers to be worked by steam or other fluid' in 1867.[5]
He was a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
He entered local politics and was Mayor of Leeds in 1878[6] and in this role laid the foundation stone of civic buildings. In 1880 he was elected as MP for Monmouth Boroughs and held the seat until 1886. On 1 October 1892, he was made a baronet, of Nanhurst in the parish of Cranleigh in the County of Surrey.[7] In 1896 he was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey.[8]
In 1887 Carbutt was elected President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He represented the Institute on the committee of the National Physical Laboratory. He was also a vice president of the Iron and Steel Institute.[9] In 1891 he was concerned with the erection of a tower at Wembley to rival the Eiffel Tower in Paris.[10]
In 1874 Carbutt married Mary Rhodes. The baronetcy became extinct on his death.
References
[edit]- ^ "Carbutt [married name Herford], Louisa (1832–1907), schoolmistress and educational pioneer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58222. Retrieved 16 September 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage
- ^ "Engineering Heritage Awards - IMechE".
- ^ 1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class 7: Thwaites and Carbutt. 1728. Thwaites and Carbutt, Vulcan Iron Works, Bradford, Yorkshire. http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/1862_London_Exhibition:_Catalogue:_Class_7.:_Thwaites_and_Carbutt (with illustration)
- ^ The London Gazette, 15 March 1867, page 1738 www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/23230/pages/1738/page.pdf
- ^ Lord Mayors & Aldermen of Leeds since 1626 Archived 2009-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "No. 26334". The London Gazette. 14 October 1892. p. 5735.
- ^ "No. 26720". The London Gazette. 10 March 1896. p. 1596.
- ^ ICE Journal Minutes of the Proceedings Obituary Sir Edward Hamer Carbutt January 1905
- ^ London Daily News Sir Edward's Tower 10 August 1891, Wednesday
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[edit]- 1838 births
- 1905 deaths
- People from Chapel Allerton
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1880–1885
- UK MPs 1885–1886
- Mayors of Leeds
- English mechanical engineers
- High sheriffs of Surrey
- British ironmasters
- Engineers from Yorkshire
- Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)