Herbert Napier Prentice
Herbert Napier Prentice (1867-1931)
1866 Born in Stowmarket
1882-5 Articled to John Watts and Co, Bristol
1885-7 Messrs Weyhes and Richmond, Paris
1888 Started business as a mechanical and electrical engineer in Stowmarket
1889 Associate member of IEE
1891 His business was acquired by Easton and Anderson of Erith, for whom he started an electrical department
1891 Married Eleanor Louise L Felgate in London[1]
1893 Started a new business as engineer in London and Stowmarket
1897 Patent: "Improvements in Apparatus for Supplying Fluids at Predetermined Times and for Predetermined Periods to Vats or Receptacles for Chemical Processes or for Analogous Purposes. "
1898 Formed Suffolk Electricity Supply Co, engineers and contractors
Herbert William Wilson employed the inventor of the 'Bull' electric motor
1899 Associate member of I Mech E
1899 Formed Anglian Engineering Co and sold his business to them
1901 'Herbert Napier Prentice, electrical engineer and secretary and managing director to the Electricity Supply Co'[2]
1901 Herbert N Prentice 34, manager, elec. eng. works, employer, lived in Stowmarket with Eleanor L L Prentice 28, Dorothy E B Prentice 7, Courtnay N Prentice 2[3]
1911 Manager, electricity supply company, lived in Stowmarket with his children (his wife was away)[4]
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Sources of Information
- Mechanical engineer records