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British engineer

Sir Harry Samuel Bickerton Brindley KBE (1867–1920) was a British engineer, armaments businessman and manufacturer.

Life

Brindley was born in September 1867 in Handsworth, near Birmingham. His father, G. S. Brindley, was an engineer and mechanics instructor at the Imperial College of Engineering in Japan, where the young Brindley was raised and educated. He graduated from Tokyo University with an engineering degree in 1883.

Career

While living in Tokyo, he received a United States patent in 1902 for a hydraulic or other fluid controlling valve.

In 1915, Brindley assumed management of the Ponders End Shell Works, devoted to WWI production. After the war, Winston Churchill wrote that Brindley's work at Ponders end "proved of the highest value to the Ministry of Munitions, and he has succeeded in a remarkable degree in enlisting the enthusiasm of the workers in the manufacture of shells."

Following the war, Brindley sought to share the methods of industrial efficiency that he had developed at Ponder's end. In 1919 he was a co-initiator of the British Institute of Industrial Administration.

Freemasonry

After the war, Ponders End employees petitioned the Freemasons for a lodge to be named after Brindley. The request was successful, after it was supported by Winston Churchill. Brindley was chosen to be the first Master.

Death and knighthood

Brindley died on 28 March 1920. Three days after his death, Brindley was posthumously gazetted as a Knight Commander of the British Empire.

References

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  3. Richard Davenport-Hines (12 November 2012). Capital, Entrepreneurs and Profits. Routledge. pp. 354–. ISBN 978-1-136-29047-3.
  4. Harry Samuel Bickerton Brindley – Graces Guide
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  6. Randolph Spencer Churchill (1977). Winston S. Churchill. Companion Volume: pt.1. Jan. 1917-June 1919. pt. 2. July 1919-March 1921. pt. 3. April 1921-Nov. 1922. Houghton Mifflin.
  7. ^ "Ponders End Shell Worker's Souvenir Book - Document | Explore 20th Century London". Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  8. HMSO (23 April 2012). Official History of the Ministry of Munitions Volume I: Industrial Mobilizations, 1914-15. Andrews UK Limited. pp. 108–. ISBN 978-1-78149-395-3.
  9. ^ Brother Winston: Churchill as a Freemason. MQ Magazine ISSUE 3, October 2002.
  10. British Management Review. 1956.
  11. Robert N. Rapoport (4 July 2013). Mid-Career Development: Research perspectives on a developmental community for senior administrators. Routledge. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-1-136-43152-4.
  12. John F. Wilson; Steven Toms; Abe de Jong; Emily Buchnea (1 December 2016). The Routledge Companion to Business History. Taylor & Francis. pp. 477–. ISBN 978-1-135-00782-9.
  13. Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage for the Year ... 1925.

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