“my nurse for over 20 years, and who has done so much to prolong my life”
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Henry Royce
Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet was an English engineer famous for his designs of car and aeroplane engines that had a reputation for reliability and longevity. He and his two business associates Charles Rolls (1877–1910) and Claude Johnson (1864–1926) together founded the Rolls-Royce Limited company in 1904.
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business · English engineer and car designer (1863–1933) · entrepreneur · inventor · car designer · engineer · also Henry Royce, Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet of Seaton, Royce
Born 27 March 1863 · Died 22 April 1933 · Q516276
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2026· 1 entry
2002· 1 entry
The now Morris Material Handling Ltd revived the Royce name to enter the American crane market
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1962· 1 entry
A memorial window dedicated to his memory was unveiled in Westminster Abbey
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1937· 2 entries
His urn was removed to the parish church of Alwalton, his birthplace
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His cremated remains were initially buried under his statue at the Rolls-Royce works in Derby, but in 1937 his urn was removed to the parish church of Alwalton, his birthplace.
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1935· 1 entry
Aubin married Tildesley, though the couple had separated by 1937
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1934· 1 entry
The year after Royce died
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1933· 3 entries
Died 1933-04-22.
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“The quality will remain long after the price is forgotten.”
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“Small things make perfection, but perfection is no small thing … Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.”
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1931· 1 entry
Lucy, Lady Houston, felt that Britain must not be left out of this contest and sent a telegram to the Prime Minister stating that she would guarantee £100,000, if necessary, towards the cost leading the Government to rev
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1921· 1 entry
Consisted of designers Bernard Incledon Day, W
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1918· 1 entry
And was created a baronet, of Seaton in the County of Rutland, in 1930 for his services to British Aviation
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1914· 1 entry
Royce rented a house called “Westward Ho
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1912· 2 entries
With their marriage at an end in 1912 his wife remained in Westwood until 1921 with Royce continuing to financially support her until her death, including after she left Westwood, purchasing for her a house called “Woodside” in Boxhill.
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His wife remained in Westwood until 1921 with Royce continuing to financially support her until her death, including after she left Westwood, purchasing for her a house called “Woodside” in Boxhill
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1911· 2 entries
His nurse Ethel Aubin took increasing control of Royce’s private life
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And he was persuaded to leave his factory in the Midlands at Derby and, taking a team of designers, move to the south of England spending winters in the south of France
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1908· 1 entry
Royce rented a property on tis outskirts from 1908-1911 called “The Knoll” in the village of Quarndon
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1907· 2 entries
When Royce moved to Derby
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Royce Ltd remained in Trafford Park, continuing to manufacture electrically driven cranes, hoists, capstans and winches
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1906· 2 entries
Rolls and Royce formalised their partnership by creating Rolls-Royce Limited, which was registered on 15 March 1906 with capital of £60,000
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Henry Royce’s involvement in Royce Ltd began to diminish and he soon had little active involvement in the company
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1904· 1 entry
Visited her most days on his way home from work
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1902· 2 entries
Royce had a nervous collapse
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The company supplied electric motors for Pritchetts and Gold, a London-based battery-maker that had diversified into building electric cars
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1901· 1 entry
Though as late as 1903 they were still also using the premises at Cooke Street
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1899· 1 entry
Its owner Henry Edmunds (1853–1927) became a director of Royce Ltd and Claremont a director of W
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1898· 1 entry
To commission architect Paul Ogden (1856-1940) to design for him and his wife a four-bedroom house with two bathrooms on Legh Road in the town of Knutsford, 14 miles (23 km) south-west of Manchester
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1894· 2 entries
Started making dynamos designed by Royce and by 1895 were producing electric cranes which required expanding into more space at Cooke Street and later the acquisition of more space in a three-storey building
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Sold nine of their cranes for use on the canal as well as a major contract to supply and install the arc-lighting system for the Port of Manchester and the adjacent Trafford Park
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1889· 1 entry
Was in his own house at 45 Barton Street in Moss Side
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1887· 1 entry
Tom Jones joined the firm as a workman to assist in the manufacturing of other products
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1882· 1 entry
At the age of 19 Royce was promoted to chief engineer of his employer’s subsidiary the Lancashire Maxim-Weston Electric Company in Liverpool
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1878· 1 entry
Despite her own limited financial circumstances to obtain Royce an apprenticeship with the Great Northern Railway company at its works in Peterborough in return for paying them £20 a year
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1876· 1 entry
At the age of 13 he obtained a job at the Post Office delivering telegrams
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1872· 1 entry
At the age of 41 in a public poorhouse in Greenwich
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1867· 1 entry
The business failed and due to their reduced circumstances the decision was made to board the three girls in Alwalton while Mary worked as an housekeeper with various families in the area
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1863· 2 entries
Born 1863-03-27.
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Financial circumstances forced James to mortgage his lease to the London Flour Company
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1852· 1 entry
To Mary, the daughter of a farmer, he acquired the lease of a flour mill at Castor in Northamptonshire
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