Harry Samuel Bickerton Brindley Explained

Sir Harry Samuel Bickerton Brindley KBE (1867–1920) was a British engineer, armaments businessman and manufacturer.

Life

Brindley was born in September 1867 in Handsworth, near Birmingham.[1] His father, G. S. Brindley, was an engineer and mechanics instructor at the Imperial College of Engineering in Japan,[2] where the younger was subsequently raised and educated.[3] He graduated from Tokyo University with an engineering degree in 1883.[4]

Career

While living in Tokyo, he received a United States patent for 1902 hydraulic or other fluid controlling valve.[5]

In 1915, Brindley assumed management of the Ponders End Shell Works, devoted to WWI production.[6] [7] [8] After the war, Winston Churchill wrote that Brindley's work at Ponders end "proved of the highest value to the Ministry of Munitions, and he has succeeded in a remarkable degree in enlisting the enthusiasm of the workers in the manufacture of shells."

Following the war, Brindley sought to share the methods of industrial efficiency that he had developed at Ponder's end.[9] In 1919 he was a co-initiator of the British Institute of Industrial Administration.[10] [11]

Freemasonry

After the war, Ponders End employees petitioned the Freemasons for a lodge to be named after Brindley.[7] The request was successful, after it was supported by Winston Churchill. Brindley was chosen to be the first Master.[12]

Death and knighthood

Brindley died on 28 March 1920. Three days after his death, Brindley was posthumously gazetted as a Knight of the British Empire.[13]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Engineer. 1920. Morgan-Grampian (Publishers).
  2. Book: Engineering. 1920. Office for Advertisements and Publication.
  3. Book: Richard Davenport-Hines. Capital, Entrepreneurs and Profits. 12 November 2012. Routledge. 978-1-136-29047-3. 354–.
  4. http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Harry_Samuel_Bickerton_Brindley Harry Samuel Bickerton Brindley – Graces Guide
  5. U.S. Patent Number 4650159
  6. Book: Randolph Spencer Churchill. Winston S. Churchill. Companion Volume: pt.1. Jan. 1917-June 1919. pt. 2. July 1919-March 1921. pt. 3. April 1921-Nov. 1922. 1977. Houghton Mifflin.
  7. Web site: Ponders End Shell Worker's Souvenir Book - Document Explore 20th Century London . 14 May 2017 . 16 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180916093328/http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/ems-ls01 . dead .
  8. Book: HMSO. Official History of the Ministry of Munitions Volume I: Industrial Mobilizations, 1914-15. 23 April 2012. Andrews UK Limited. 978-1-78149-395-3. 108–.
  9. Book: British Management Review. 1956.
  10. Book: Robert N. Rapoport. Mid-Career Development: Research perspectives on a developmental community for senior administrators. 4 July 2013. Routledge. 978-1-136-43152-4. 23–.
  11. Book: John F. Wilson. Steven Toms. Abe de Jong. Emily Buchnea. The Routledge Companion to Business History. 1 December 2016. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-135-00782-9. 477–.
  12. http://www.mqmagazine.co.uk/issue-3/p-08.php?PHPSESSID=29bf3a7562b822354b4a Brother Winston: Churchill as a Freemason.
  13. Book: Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage for the Year .... 1925.

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