Henry Wilson Young
Henry Wilson Young (1866-1940)
c.1866 Born in India
1885-91 Apprentice with Clarke, Chapman and Co
1892-3 Works Manager Maxim-Weston Engineering Works, Dalston
1892 Founding partner in Bergtheil and Young
1899 Member of IEE; Associate member I Mech E.
1911 Henry Wilson Young 45, engineer and contractor (in jointless flooring), lived London with Hylda Wilson Young 34, Ian A D Wilson Young 3[1]
1940 Died in Farnham[2]
1941 Obituary [3]
HENRY WILSON YOUNG, who was elected a Member of the Institution in 1899, obtained his practical training with Messrs. Clarke, Chapman and Co., for whom he subsequently installed electric lighting plants on torpedo boats of the Italian Navy.
He was then appointed works manager with Messrs. Pryke and Palmer (successors to the Maxim Weston Co. of Dalston), and in the following year, 1892, became a partner in the firm of Bergtheil and Young (later Berkeley and Young).
He played football for the London Scottish and was also very keen on amateur theatricals.
He married the daughter of A. Wertheimer, the well-known art dealer in Bond Street, and lived for some years at Rickmansworth.
He died in October, 1940, at Farnham, some years after his wife.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1911 census
- ↑ national probate calendar
- ↑ 1941 Institution of Electrical Engineers: Obituaries