John Aiton Charnock
John Aiton Charnock (1862-1915)
1915 Obituary [1]
JOHN AITON CHARNOCK was born in the East Indies on 23rd August 1862.
He was educated at St. Mark's College, Windsor, and the Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh. Later he attended classes at the College of Science and Art, Glasgow.
In 1878 he commenced an apprenticeship of five years in the works of Messrs. Miller and Co., Vulcan Foundry, Coatbridge, and on its completion in 1883 he became a draughtsman with Messrs. William Beardmore and Co., Ltd., Parkhead Forge and Rolling Mills, Glasgow.
Four years later he transferred his services to the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd., Govan, Glasgow, with which firm he remained two years, when he was appointed works manager to the Mannesmann Tube Co., Ltd., Landore, South Wales.
In 1896 he went to America to take up the position of manager to the Greenville Tube Co., Pennsylvania, and in 1898 he returned to this country and became a partner in the firm of Charnock, Phillips and Co., mechanical and electrical engineers, Bridge Works, Birmingham.
In December 1912 be went back to the United States and was employed in the works of The William Tod Co., Youngstown, Ohio, until December 1914, when he returned to this country, and acted as their representative.
His death took place very suddenly at his residence in Birmingham, on 30th April 1915, in his fifty-third year.
He was elected an Associate Member of this Institution in 1905.