Harold Lincoln Tangye

Harold Lincoln Tangye
File:Tangye, Harold Lincoln.jpg
Born	1866
Died	1935
Residence	Maxstoke Castle, Warwickshire 12 Old Burlington Street, W. [1911] 5 Spanish Place, Manchester, W. [1915]
Occupation	business
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1915 last listed elected_AI 1906.02.02

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Proposed by George H. Haswell; seconded by William Gowland, 1905.12.17

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Tangye Brothers of Cornwall Works, Clement St., Birmingham. Makers of pumps, lifting equipment and engines. Produced Hydraulic rams (used to launch the SS Great Eastern), steam pumps, horizontal steam engines and the differential pulley still known by the Tangye name.

Sir HAROLD LINCOLN TANGYE, Bart., was the eldest son of Sir Richard Tangye, who with his brother George Tangye, M.I.Mech.E., founded the Birmingham firm associated with his name.
Sir Lincoln was born in 1866 and was educated at Queenswood College, Hampshire, and Owens College, Manchester.
In 1884 he entered his father's works and served an apprenticeship in the shops and drawing office until 1890, when he was transferred to the estimating department. From 1891 he assisted the managing director, and shortly afterwards he became manager. He was actively engaged in the development of gas and oil engines, and carried out much experimental work in that direction; he also contributed papers on the subject to various scientific bodies.
In connexion with the firm's interests he travelled to Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and after his return to Birmingham he was chiefly engaged in developing the commercial side of the business.
Subsequently he became deputy chairman, and remained on the board until 1934, when he resigned on account of ill health.
In addition to his travels on the firm's business, he toured widely and wrote two books describing visits to South Africa, and the Sudan.
He was elected a Graduate of the Institution in 1889 and was transferred to Membership in 1894.
His death occurred in London on 24th February 1935.