YARROW, SIR ALFRED, FIRST BARONET
- YARROW, SIR ALFRED, FIRST BARONET
- YARROW, SIR ALFRED, FIRST BARONET (1842–1932), British
shipbuilder. Yarrow was the son of an Anglican merchant; his mother,
Esther Lindo, came from an old Sephardi family. Yarrow was educated at
University College School, London, and was then apprenticed to a marine
engineer. The firm he founded in the 1860s, Alfred Yarrow & Co., became
one of the leading naval boat builders in the world, producing 29
destroyers and many gunboats and other vessels for the Royal Navy.
Yarrow pioneered the torpedo boat as well as a variety of important
innovations in ships' boilers and propellers and introduced aluminum and
other lightweight materials into ship design. In 1906–8 he moved his
works from London to the River Clyde near Glasgow. He gave very
substantial sums to charity and in 1916 was made a baronet (a hereditary
knight.) His son SIR HAROLD YARROW, Second Baronet
(1884–1962), was chairman of the firm for 40 years.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ODNB online; B. Baxter, "Alfred Fernandez Yarrow," in: A.
Slaven and S. Checkland (eds.), Dictionary of Scottish Business
Biography 1860 – 1960, I (1986), 245–47;
A. Borthwick, Yarrow & Co. Ltd., 1865 – 1977
(1977).
(William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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