| Authorised form of name | Froude; William (1810 - 1879) |
| Dates | 1810 - 1879 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Dartington, Devon, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 28 November 1810 |
| Place of death | Admiralty House, Simonstown, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Africa |
| Date of death | 04 May 1879 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Naval cemetery, Simonstown, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Africa |
| Occupation | Mechanical engineer |
| Research field | Hydrodynamics |
| Activity | 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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/06/1870 |
| Age at election | 59 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1876 |
| Relationships | 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) |
| PublishedWorks | 'On the rolling of Ships' 1862 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; Wikipedia
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1879 vol 29 pp ii-vi |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/45083093 |
| Code | NA2850 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1870/02 | Froude, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/7/394 | Letter from William Froude, on a paper 'On rolling-friction' by Osborne Reynolds to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 7 July 1875 |
| RR/7/484 | Referee's report by William Froude, on a paper 'On determining the depth of the sea without the use of the sounding-line' by Charles William Siemens | 20 April 1876 |
| MC/9/94 | Letter from W [William] Froude, Chelston Cross, Torquay, to Dr [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society | 10 June 1870 |
| MC/10/86 | Letter from W [William] Froude, Chelston Cross, Torquay, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 16 March 1874 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| AP/56/3 | Unpublished paper, 'The uniform wave of oscillation. An analysis' by John Imray | March 1874 |
| AP/56/3/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'The uniform wave of oscillation. An analysis' by John Imray | March 1874 |
| RR/7/395 | Referee's report by William Froude, on a paper 'On rolling-friction' by Osborne Reynolds | 7 July 1875 |