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Alfred Yarrow

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His first wife, married in 1875, was Minnie Florence Franklin, daughter of Theodosia (née Balderson; daughter of Major G. R. Balderson) and Frank Franklin. Frank's family were Jewish emigrants from Germany. Yarrow's daughter Minnie Ethel Yarrow was invested as an Officer of the
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Azure in base on the sea Proper an ancient three-masted ship sailing to the sinister Argent in chief two swallows volant of the last each holding in the beak a harebell slipped also Proper.
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L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884–1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, UK: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 99.
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Yarrow's strong naval engineering capabilities and inventive mind were behind a number of inventions designed to drive ships ever faster, and in 1912 he was appointed to the
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tendencies throughout his later years, donating towards: a convalescent home on the Isle of Dogs for the benefit of children; residences for soldiers' widows in
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background and his father was from an English Christian family; Yarrow was raised a Christian. He was educated at
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The Shipbuilding industry: a guide to historical records by L. A. Ritchie, Manchester University Press, 1992,
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in Eric's memory which is known as the Yarrow Gallery. Son Norman Alfred Yarrow (10 July 1891-d. 1956) ran
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Yarrow had two other daughters, Florence Yarrow (d. 8 March 1948) and Evelyn Yarrow (d. 13 January 1963).
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for some years from 1896. In 1899, Yarrow encouraged a young engineer who lived nearby in Greenwich,
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Above clouds Proper a swallow volant Argent holding in the beak a yarrow flower slipped also Proper.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20110722165203/http://www.oundleschool.org.uk/arts/yarrow/history.php
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By this time, the Hedley partnership had been dissolved (1875), and the company was known as
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Lady Yarrow): Alfred Yarrow His Life & Works. London: Edward Arnold, 1923.
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Eleanor Lady Yarrow, née Eleanor Cecilia Barnes, 2nd wife of Sir Alfred Yarrow
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Yarrow married his second wife Eleanor Cecilia Barnes on 2 December 1922.
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This photo of Woodlands House appeared in the November 1897 edition of
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Yarrow ventured into military vessels from the early 1870s, building
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2/Lt Eric Fernandez Yarrow, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders –
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navies, among other customers. Then in 1892 he built the first two
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The Yarrow Gallery at Oundle School, Northamptonshire, England
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