1. Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, 1st Baronet, was a British shipbuilder who started a shipbuilding dynasty, Yarrow Shipbuilders.
12 Facts About Alfred Yarrow
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Alfred Yarrow's mother was of Spanish Sephardic Jewish background and his father was from an English Christian family; Yarrow was raised a Christian.
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Alfred Yarrow ventured into military vessels from the early 1870s, building torpedo boats for the Argentine and Japanese navies, among other customers.
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Alfred Yarrow struck up a strong friendship and correspondence with Lord Fisher, and subsequently Yarrow Shipbuilders became a lead contractor for the Royal Navy for smaller, but almost always fast, boats.
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Alfred Yarrow lived in Greenwich, London for some years, occupying Woodlands House in Mycenae Road, Westcombe Park for some years from 1896.
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In 1899, Alfred Yarrow encouraged a young engineer who lived nearby in Greenwich, Alexander Duckham, to specialise in lubricants, leading to the establishment of the Duckhams oil company.
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Alfred Yarrow left a bequest to the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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Yarrow's daughter Minnie Ethel Yarrow was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ; she married on 18 December 1900 Dr Bertrand Dawson physician to King George V The actor Damian Lewis is their great-grandson.
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Alfred Yarrow married his second wife Eleanor Cecilia Barnes on 2 December 1922.
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Son Norman Alfred Yarrow ran Yarrows shipyards in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Alfred Yarrow died on 24 January 1932 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery.
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Alfred Yarrow was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame in 2024.