Ernest George Gearing
Ernest George Gearing (1849-1907)
1907 Obituary [1]
ERNEST GEORGE GEARING was born at Brambridge, Hampshire, on 21th May 1849.
He was educated at the London Orphan Asylum, Clapton, London, and served an apprenticeship with Messrs. C. and W. Walker, engineers, of Donington, Salop, from 1867 to 1871.
On its termination he was employed as journeyman by Messrs. G. and W. Belliss and Co., of Birmingham, from 1871 to 1874, and then entered the service of the Union Steamship Co., at Southampton, as seagoing engineer until 1882. During the last five years of this period he was chief engineer.
He then was appointed works manager of the shipyard of Messrs. J. and G. Thomson, of Clydebank, and superintended the building of the steamships "City of Paris" and "City of New York."
For a short time in 1888 he was manager for Messrs. Oswald Mordaunt and Co., of Southampton, and then became assistant superintendent engineer of the Inman and International Steamship Co., being promoted to the post of superintendent engineer in 1890.
In the following year he was appointed manager of the Naval Works Co., Southampton, and held this position until 1892, when he became general manager and secretary of the Leeds Forge Co.
On the death of Mr. Samson Fox in 1903, ho was appointed managing director, which position ho held until his death.
Having scarcely had a day's illness during his life, he succumbed after an operation for appendicitis in London, on 8th February 1907, in his fifty-eighth year.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1901; and was also a Member of the Institution of Naval Architects, the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, and other Societies.
1907 Obituary [2]
. . . for some years works manager of the shipyard of James and George Thomson, . . . In 1892 he was offered the post of general manager and secretary of the Leeds Forge Co in which position he continued till two years ago, when, on the death of Samson Fox, he became managing director of that firm. . . . [more]
1907 Obituary [3]