Alexander Montgomery Carlisle
Alexander Montgomery Carlisle (1854-1926) of Harland and Wolff.
Son of John Carlisle and cousin and brother-in-law of William James Pirrie.
1926 Obituary
"The death of the Right Hon. Alexander Montgomery Carlisle took place suddenly in London on Friday last, March 5th. It is said to have been the ultimate result of a visit paid the Ex-Kaiser at Doorn in November of last year, when he contracted a chill. The immediate cause, however, was heart failure. Mr Carlisle, who was both cousin and brother-in-law of the late Lord Pirrie- Viscountess Pirrie being his sister - was the eldest son of the late Mr John Carlisle, who was between 1861 and 1884, headmaster of the English Department of the Royal Academical Institution at Belfast. He was born at Ballymena, in County Antrim, on July 8th, 1854, and received his education at the Academical Institution under his father. In 1870, at the early age of sixteen, he was apprenticed at the shipbuilding works of Harland and Wolff, at Queen's Island, Belfast, with which company he continued to be connected for a period of no less than forty years - in fact, for the whole of his professional career..." Read more.