Wilfred Holmes
Wilfred Holmes (c1877-1935)
1935 Obituary.[1]
The Late Mr. Wilfred Holmes.
Many of our readers will learn with regret of the death, on Saturday last, September 28th, of Mr. Wilfred Holmes, the manager of the instrument department of Ferranti, Ltd., of Hollinwood, Lancashire. Mr. Holmes, who earlier in the year recovered from a serious illness, was only fifty-eight years of age and for more than thirty years had been a member of the Ferranti staff. He was a trusted assistant and a personal friend of the late Dr. Z. de Ferranti, under whose guidance he carried out extensive and invaluable work on the subjects of meters, instruments, and kindred apparatus. For many years he has been accepted as an authority on metering problems, and he made frequent contributions on the subject in papers which he read before the Institution of Electrical Engineers and in articles he contributed to the technical Press. He also served on several committees of the British Standards Institution. From its inception the Meter and Instrument Section of the I.E.E. found in him one of its most active members, and this year it paid him the honour of electing him Chairman for the coming session. Wifred Holmes was gifted with a great personal charm, lightly veiled, perhaps, with an inborn shyness which he never really overcame. His appreciative understanding of the younger members of his staff enabled him to bring out the best in all who worked for him, and to-day there are many prominent meter engineers who readily acknowledge how much they owe to the kindly patience which he showed to them during their early training.