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1887-1888: Sir Edward Carbutt
Sir Edward Carbutt (1837-1905)
18th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Carbutt was born in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, England in 1837. He was the youngest son of Francis Carbutt, who was director of the Midland Railway Company for almost twenty-five years. It was in the Derby workshops of the Midland Railway Company that he began his apprenticeship, which he completed at Palmer's Works at Jarrow-on-Tyne.
Upon completing his apprenticeship, he returned to the Derby works as an outdoor foreman in the locomotive department. When he was 24 he entered into a partnership with Robinson Thwaites in the Vulcan Iron Works at Bradford. They soon acquired a high reputation for machinery used in the production and manufacture of iron and steel.
He was also involved in politics and succeeded in causing Government enquiries to be carried out into increasing ordnance production, and the need for the extension of the railways in India.
He died in 1905.
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