William Arrol

Portrait of William Arrol
Bust of William Arrol, People's Palace museum, Glasgow
Memorial to Sir William Arrol, now on display in the Glasgow People's Palace

Sir William Arrol (13 February 1839 – 20 February 1913) was a Scottish civil engineer, bridge builder, and Liberal Unionist Party politician.

Early life

The son of a spinner, Arrol was born in Houston, Renfrewshire, and started work in a cotton mill at only 9 years of age,[1] prior to commencing training as a blacksmith by age 13, and going on to learn mechanics and hydraulics at night school.[2]

Career

In 1863 he joined a company of bridge manufacturers in Glasgow, but by 1872 he had established his own business, the Dalmarnock Iron Works, in the east end of the city. The business evolved to become Sir William Arrol & Co., a large international civil engineering business.[1]

Projects undertaken by the business under his leadership included the replacement for the Tay Bridge (completed in 1887), the Forth Bridge (completed in 1890) and Tower Bridge (completed in 1894).[1] He was also contracted by the Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, to construct a large gantry (known as the Arrol Gantry) for the construction of three new super-liners, one of which was the RMS Titanic.[3]

Arrol was knighted in 1890,[1] and elected as the Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ayrshire at the 1895 general election, serving the constituency until 1906.[4] He served as President of The Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland from 1895–97. He spent the latter years of his life on his estate at Seafield House, near Ayr,[5] where he died on 20 February 1913.[1] He is buried in Woodside Cemetery, Paisley, on the north side of the main east-west path on the crest of the hill.[6]

Legacy

In 2013 he was one of four inductees to the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame.[7] His image is also featured on the Clydesdale Bank £5 note introduced in 2015.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Sir William Arrol". Scottish Gazetteer. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Abandoned home of Sir William Arrol restored after being saved from demolition". Glasgow Herald. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  3. ^ "The giant Arrol Gantry". National Museums Northern Ireland. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Sir William Arrol". UK Parliament. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Seafield Children's Hospital". Historic Hospitals. 26 April 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Heritage Trail". Paisley Cemetery. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  7. ^ "Sir William Arrol (1839–1913)". Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Clydesdale Bank brings in plastic £5 notes". BBC News. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2016.

Further reading

  • Peter R. Lewis, Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879, Tempus, 2004, ISBN 0-7524-3160-9.
  • Charles McKean Battle for the North: The Tay and Forth bridges and the 19th century railway wars Granta, 2006, ISBN 1-86207-852-1
  • John Rapley, Thomas Bouch : the builder of the Tay Bridge, Stroud : Tempus, 2006, ISBN 0-7524-3695-3
  • PR Lewis, Disaster on the Dee: Robert Stephenson's Nemesis of 1847, Tempus Publishing (2007) ISBN 978-0-7524-4266-2
  • Sir Robert Purvis, Sir William Arrol a Memoir, London, 1913
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for South Ayrshire
1895 – 1906 		Succeeded by

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