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Francis Wentworth Brewster

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Francis Wentworth Brewster (1847-1908) of the Bouyant Appliances Supply Co

1877 Patent. '1112. To Francis Wentworth Brewster, of Greenstead Hall, Halstead, in the county of Essex, for the invention of "improvements in warships or vessels, and in applying armour plating thereto, or to other ships, or to forts,"'[1]

1890 Married in Southwark to Sophia Esther Vickers

1899 Patent. '6,788. Francis Wentworth Brewster, High Holborn, London. "Improvements in the manufacture of golf balls and apparatus used therein."[2]

1901 Patent. '6,8l3. Francis Wentworth Brewster, London: An improvement in or applicable to screw propellers'[3]

1901 Living at Chesterfield House, Bournemouth: Francis W. Brewster (age 52 born Greenstead Green, Essex), Engineering Experimentee. With his wife Sophie E. Brewster and seven servants.[4]

1908 Concerning his estate. '...Francis Wentworth Brewster, late of Wrentham-place, Grove-road, Bournemouth, Gentleman, deceased (who died on the 22nd day of September, 1908. and whose will was proved in the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice, on the 5th day of November, 1908, by Sophia Esther Brewster, widow, Henry Arthur Hopwood, and Edward Henry Bone, the executors therein named...'[5]


Cambridge University Alumni. 'Adm. pens. at TRINITY, Oct. 1, 1866. S. and h. of Cardinal [Surgeon, 1st Foot, of Essex, J.P.]. B. Apr. 28, 1847, at Halstead, Essex. School, Blackheath proprietary (Mr Selwyn). Matric. Michs. 1866; B.A. 1872; M.A. 1875. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Jan. 9, 1871. Called to the Bar, 1874; never practised. Of Greenstead Hall, Halstead; succeeded his father, Dec. 1889. Died Sept. 22, 1908, at Wreatham Place, Bournemouth.'

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