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524:. Impressed with the boats, Bibby ordered six more boats from Harland in 1860. The boats that Edward Harland designed were long, had a narrow beam and were flat-bottomed; the boats became known as "Bibby's coffins". On 26 January 1860, Harland married Rosa Matilda Wann, of Vermont, Belfast, who was the daughter of Thomas Wann, a stockbroker and insurance agent. In 1861, Harland chose the 27-year-old
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store. Edward was the seventh child of ten, and the fourth boy of six. His antecedent brother died as an infant; Edward
Harland is described as the sixth child in the family by alternative sources. Dr. Harland was a physician and an amateur engineer; he invented a patented steam-powered carriage in
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Harland applied for several patents including, in 1860 for "improvements in constructing and covering the decks of ships and other floating bodies", in 1871 for "improvements in apparatus for propelling vessels", in 1878 for "improvements in screw-propellers." In 1880 Harland and his two partners
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He had an all-smelling nose as well as an all-seeing eye. One day he was walking rapidly along, and he suddenly stopped dead and sniffed at a saw-pit. In a flash the trapdoor was lifted and there squatting in the sawdust was a wizened little man, puffing at clay
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on industrial disputes in 1891. Harland then moved to London, and was re-elected unopposed twice in 1892 and 1895 and served as MP for the constituency until his death, on
Christmas Eve 1895, at his Irish home, Glenfarne Hall in
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and a member of the Church in Rosemary Street, Belfast. As a member of the
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1336:. 24 April 1891. pp. 2238â2239.
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562:. In 1874 Edward Harland recruited
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1174:"BBC â A short history of Ireland"
999:Michael S. Moss (September 2004).
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1263:Oxford Companion to Irish History
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1577:Burials at Belfast City Cemetery
1472:Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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893:"Stephenson, Robert (1803â1859)"
270:. In 1846, aged 15, he took an
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1204:. 18 January 1867. p. 333.
595:Conservative and Unionist Party
585:Political career and later life
393:. In 1846, aged 15, he went to
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323:Conservative and Unionist Party
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397:to serve an apprenticeship at
237:Rosa Matilda Wann (1860-death)
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890:M.W. Kirby (September 2004).
556:Confederate States of America
490:Founding of Harland and Wolff
399:Robert Stephenson and Company
276:Robert Stephenson and Company
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611:Member of Parliament
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526:Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
470:Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
331:Member of Parliament
308:William James Pirrie
300:Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
79:Edward James Harland
18:Edward James Harland
871:on 11 November 2007
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378:Marks & Spencer
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1572:Mayors of Belfast
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