William Harry Vernon
William Harry Vernon (1854-1905)
1905 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM HARRY VERNON was born at Leicester on 3rd August 1854, and received his education at the Great Meeting School of that town. He also attended science classes at St. Martin's Schools, Leicester, and at the Midland Institute, Birmingham.
He served an apprenticeship from 1869 to 1874 in the works of Mr. J. T. Harrot, engineer and machinist, of Leicester.
In 1876 he entered the works of Messrs. E. Green and Son, of Wakefield, and had charge of the erection of fuel economizers in the Midlands and the South of England.
In 1884 he commenced to represent the same firm over the United Kingdom, with the exception of Lancashire and London, and remained in that capacity until his death, which took place at his residence in Wakefield, from pleurisy on 24th March 1905, in his fifty-first year.
He became an Associate Member of this Institution in 1896.