William Holden Brodrick
William Holden Brodrick (1851-1817)
1918 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM HOLBORN BRODRICK was born in 1851.
After working for one year at Messrs. Marshall, Sons and Co.'s works at Gainsborough, he was apprenticed in 1867 to Messrs. J. B. Edlington and Co., of the Phoenix Iron Works, Gainsborough, and on its completion in 1872 he was employed in various works for the next five years.
In 1879 he went to sea and obtained the Chief Engineer's Certificate.
In 1892, he became assistant to the late Mr. A. E. Allen, of Hull, and, after the latter's death he succeeded him as consulting engineer and ship surveyor to the following firms of shipowners- H. Briggs, Sons and Co., Good, Flodman and Co., Rawson and Robinson, the Hull and Netherland Steamship Co., and the Humber Pilots Steam Cutter Co., &c.
He was also surveyor for the Humber ports to the Norwegian Veritas, and was one of the four engineer assessors appointed for the United Kingdom by the Board of Trade.
He continued in consulting practice until his death, which took place in Hull on 17th November 1917, at the age of sixty-six.
He was elected a Member of this Institution in 1897.