Person Froude; William (1810 - 1879) Froude William 1810 - 1879 British Male Dartington, Devon, England, United Kingdom 28 November 1810 18101128 Admiralty House, Simonstown, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Africa 04 May 1879 18790504 Burial: Naval cemetery, Simonstown, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Africa

Chelston Cross, Torquay, Devon (1869)

Mechanical engineer Hydrodynamics Education: Westminster School; Oriel College, University of Oxford, BA mathematics (1832), MA (1837) Career: Surveyor on the South Eastern Railway (1837); given responsibility for construction of a section of the Bristol and Exeter Railway by Brunel; Vicar's Warden at St Andrew's Church from (1842-1844); constructed bilge keels to prevent rolling in ships; studied resistance and propulsion in water; commissioned to determine the most efficient hull shape; JP for Devon; commissioned by the Admiralty to produce a machine capable of absorbing and measuring the power of large naval engines (1877), he invented, patented and built the world's first water brake dynamometer, sometimes known as the hydraulic dynamometer; died of dysentery; buried with full naval honours Memberships: MICE; AINA; MIMechE Fourth son of the Ven Robert Hurrell Froude, Archdeacon of Totnes and Rector of Dartington; elder brother of James Anthony Froude, historian; father of Robert Edmund Froude (FRS 1894) Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1876 Fellow 02/06/1870 59 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB; Wikipedia Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1879 vol 29 pp ii-vi International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 'On the rolling of Ships' 1862 28 Nov 1810 - 4 May 1879 NA2850 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/45083093 8a7d1308-b379-4e83-b2ee-cb0d7ec7e8e4