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1882-1883: Percy Graham Buchanan Westmacott
Percy Graham Buchanan Westmacott (1830-1917)
15th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Westmacott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1830.
He was apprenticed to Miller, Ravenhill and Co, Blackwall. In 1851, he joined the W. G. Armstrong's Elswick Works as a draughtsman. When Armstrong was appointed to superintend the manufacture of guns at Woolwich Arsenal in 1895, Westmacott was entrusted with the technical management of the engine works at Elswick, and during this time contributed to the development of the hydraulic lifting machinery department. In 1864, he became a partner in the company of Sir W. G. Armstrong and Co, formed in that year, and became Managing Director when the firm became a limited company in 1882.
He died in 1917.
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