John Tebbutt Plowright
John Tebbutt Plowright (1869-1920)
1921 Obituary [1]
JOHN TEBBUTT PLOWRIGHT was born at Nottingham on 27th July 1869.
He received his scholastic education at Gosberton Hall, Lincolnshire, and at Nottingham High School.
In 1885 be commenced his apprenticeship with Messrs. Sharp, Stewart and Co., Manchester, and concluded it with Messrs. J. and G. Thompson, Clydebank.
He then joined Messrs. Thomas Wilson and Sons, of Hull, as seagoing engineer, and sailed with them for nine years.
In 1900 he became chief engineer in the marine department of the Southern Nigerian Protectorate, and was for nine years chief of the Government yacht "Ivy." He took an important part in the suppression of the Bibicala rising in 1903, for which he received the King Edward Medal for gallantry.
In 1911 he retired owing to ill-health contracted through the climatic conditions of the country. For a period during the War he served as a Government' Inspector in the Aeronautical Department.
After prolonged ill-health his death took place at Hull on 10th September 1920, at the age of fifty-one.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1912.