James Fortescue Flannery Bart (1851 - 1943)

Born 16 Dec 1851 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Died 5 Oct 1943 at age 91 in Wethersfield, Essex, England

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Sir JAMES FORTESCUE FLANNERY, Bart., was born at Liverpool on the 16th December, 1851, and died at Wethersfield Manor, Essex, on the 5th October, 1943. In 1866 he served one year with Mr. David Campbell, Liverpool, and was then apprenticed to Messrs. James Taylor and Company, of Birkenhead for 5 years, afterwards being employed as a draughtsman. During this period he studied at the Liverpool School of Science and became Derby Prizeman. In 1873 he was appointed to the London staff of Sir Edward J. Reed, E.C.B., M.P., Chief Constructor of the Navy,. as Assistant and Inspecting Engineer. Five years later he started practice as a consulting engineer and naval architect, and later founded the firms of Flannery, Baggalay, and Johnson (London), Flannery and Gregson (Rotterdam), and Flannery and Gwen (Liverpool). He acted as consultant to various British and Colonial Government Departments, shipowners, and marine insurance companies. He was also chairman of directors of Callenders’ Cable and Construction Company and a director of Rarclay’s Bank. He served as a Member of the Technical Committee of Lloyd’s Register, and was an Associate Member of Lloyds, London. In 1895 he was elected Unionist Member of Parliament for the Shipley Division of Yorkshire, which he represented until 1906, and he sat for the Maldon Division of Essex from 1910 to 1922. He was a Justice of the Peace for the Counties of Essex, Kent, London, and Surrey, and one of His Majesty’s Lieutenants for the City of London. A knighthood was conferred upon him in 1899, and he was created a Baronet in 1904. Sir James was elected an Associate Member of The Institution on the 5th Pebruary, 1879, and was transferred to the class of Member on the 3rd March, 1885. He was also a founder member and Past-President of the Society of Consuking Marine Engineers and Ship Surveyors, a Past- President of the Institute of Marine Engineers, of t,he Liverpool Shipbuilders’ Guild, and of the Junior Engineers Institution, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Member of the Institutiono f Naval Architects. In 1882 he married Edith Mary Emma, daughter of Osborn Jenkyn, and had one son, who succeeded to the Baronetcy, and two daughters. Lady Fortescue Flannery died in 1936. ^[1]

Sir James Fortescue Flannery, 1st Baronet (16 December 1851 – 5 October 1943) was an English engineer and naval architect, and Liberal Unionist (later Conservative Party) politician. Flannery was born in Liverpool, the son of Capt. John Flannery of Seacombe. Educated at the Liverpool College of Science and Victoria University, he worked in Birkenhead and was subsequently engaged by Sir Edward J Reid KCS later Chief Constructor of H.M Navy. He was head of Flannery, Baggally & Johnson Marine Engineering, which eventually opened offices in London, Liverpool and Rotterdam. and a Director of London and South Western Bank. Between 1900 and 1906 he was President of the Railway Clerks' Association. He was President of the Institute of Marine Engineers 1914, and later President of the Society of Consulting Engineers 1931. He was appointed J.P for Surrey 1892, for Kent in 1895, knighted in 1899,[1] and appointed JP for Essex in 1904. He was elected at the 1895 general election as Member of Parliament for Shipley in West Yorkshire, holding the seat until the 1906 general election.[2] He returned to Parliament at the January 1910 election as Conservative Party MP for Maldon in Essex. In the latter constituency he fought the 1918 election as a Coalition Conservative candidate, winning with a majority of 1823, but passing the baton over to Edward Ruggles-Brise for the 1922 election. Created a baronet in 1904, of Wethersfield Manor, Essex,[3][4] he was also Lord of the Manor of Wethersfield. In 1882 he married Edith Mary Emma, daughter of Osborn Jenkyn of Ealing who predeceased him by eight years. Flannery died in October 1943 aged 91 leaving an estate valued at over £400,000, £150,000 being paid in tax. His son Sir Harold (born 1883) was given a life interest in the estate and provision was made through a trust fund for daughters Kathleen Edith (Hartridge) and Enid Fortescue (Lindsay). The family sold the Wethersfield property in 1957. The terms of Flannery's will display a remarkable concern about premature burial with clear instructions as to how his body should be treated prior to interment. ^[2]

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1. ↑ http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/ijoti.1943.13972
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fortescue_Flannery