| Authorised form of name | Yarrow; Sir; Alfred Fernandez (1842 - 1932); marine engineer and shipbuilder |
| Dates | 1842 - 1932 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | 2 Bury Court, St Mary Axe, London, England |
| Date of birth | 13 January 1842 |
| Place of death | Savoy Hotel, the Strand, London, England |
| Date of death | 24/01/1932 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Highgate Cemetery, London |
| Occupation | Marine engineer |
| Research field | Engineering |
| Activity | Education:
University College School, London
Career:
Apprenticed to Ravenhill, Salkeld & Co., marine engine builders (1857); attended lectures of Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution (FRS 1824) with his friend James Hilditch, with whom he patented a steam carriage and a steam plough (1861); partnered with a Mr Hedley and established a works at Folly Wall, Isle of Dogs, Poplar London (1865); dissolved the partnership (1875); developed his business which was incorporated as a limited liability company, Yarrow & Co Ltd (1897); moved the enterprise to Scotstoun, on the River Clyde (1906-1908); retired to Hampshire (1913); returned to work building destroyers, and developing shallow-draught gunboats, for the war effort (1914); gave considerable donations to projects related to shipbuilding, including £20, 000 towards the building of a test tank for shup models at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington (1911); gave £100, 000 to the Royal Society for the establishment of research professorships (1923); founded the Yarrow Home for Convalescent Children at Broadstairs, Kent, gave to the London Hospital, and donated for training of nurses in Glasgow and provision of nurses in remote areas of Scotland.
Honours:
Bt 1916 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 11/05/1922 |
| Age at election | 80 |
| Proposer | William Cawthorne Unwin; Henry Bradwardine Jackson; Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Archibald Geikie; Philip Watts; Ernest George Coker; William Henry Mahoney Christie |
| William Ernest Dalby; Dugald Clerk; Robert Hadfield; Charles Algernon Parsons; Alexander Blackie William Kennedy; Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; John Isaac Thornycroft |
| Relationships | Parents: Edgar Williams Yarrow (1804–1867) of Barnsbury, London, and his wife, Esther Lindo (1797–1889), daughter of Moses Dacosta Lindo, a West Indies merchant.
Spouse: 1) Minnie Florence Franklin (1852/3–1922) (24 March 1875); 2) Eleanor Cecilia Barnes (1871–1953), daughter of Goodwin Barnes, coal proprietor (2 December 1922).
Children: 1st marriage) three daughters and three sons, the youngest son was killed in action in 1915. |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 7-11, plate, by Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson d'Eyncourt |
| Code | NA1842 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1922/15 | Yarrow, Sir Alfred Fernadez: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/28/76 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 January 1904 |
| NLB/40/187 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to A [Alfred] F [Fernandez] Yarrow | 29 April 1909 |
| NLB/40/299 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor and John Rose Bradford to A [Alfred] F [Fernadez] Yarrow | 21 May 1909 |
| MS/928/2/201 | Letter from Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, Isle of Dogs, Poplar, London, to Charles Vernon Boys, Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street | 5 January 1900 |
| NLB/64/767 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Chief Accountant of Westminster Bank Ltd. London E.C.3 | 15 June 1923 |
| NLB/62/144 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Alfred [Fernandez] Yarrow, FRS; Homestead, Hindhead, Surrey | 9 December 1921 |
| NLB/62/33 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Institution of Naval Architects; 5 Adelphi Terrace, W.C.2. | 19 November 1921 |
| NLB/61/783 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Institution of Naval Architects; Adelphi Terrace, Strand, W.C.2. | 25 October 1921 |
| NLB/64/782 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs. Heseltine, powell & Co. Throgmorton Street, E.C. | 18 June 1923 |
| NLB/64/910 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society | 9 July 1923 |
| NLB/66/292 | Copy letter from [the Secretary of] the Royal Society; to The Times, The Morning Post, Nature, The Daily Telegraph and the Press Association | 4 April 1924 |
| NLB/66/670 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Alfred Yarrow, Barts. FRS | 17 June 1924 |
| NLB/72/518 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Alfred Yarrow, Baronet, FRS | 28 November 1929 |
| NLB/52/340 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Secretary of the Institution of Naval Architects | 11 November 1915 |
| S/0024 | Sculpture bust of Yarrow, Sir Alfred Fernandez | |
| MC/31/102 | Letter from [Henry George] Lyons, Meteorological Office, South Kensington, London, S.W, to Sir Alfred [Fernandez Yarrow], [Royal Society] | 9 June 1916 |
| MC/37/55 | Letter from [Frank] Gill, European Chief Engineer, International Western Electric Company, Incorporated European General Offices, Connaught House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2., to Sir Charles [Scott] Sherrington, President, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W | 1 May 1923 |
| MC/37/56 | Letter from [Frank] Gill, European Chief Engineer, International Western Electric Company, Incorporated European General Offices, Connaught House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2., to Sir Charles [Scott] Sherrington, President, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W | 28 May 1923 |