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Revision as of 21:11, 2 March 2011

Inspector of Machinery Richard Sennett, Royal Navy (25 October, 1847 – 4 September, 1891) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

On 25 April, 1883, Sennett was appointed to the Admiralty as Inspector of Machinery in the Controller's Department.[1] On 29 October, 1885, he was promoted to the rank of Inspector of Machinery. William Castle, promoted at the same time, was fourteen years his senior.[2] In 1886 Sennett became Acting Engineer-in-Chief of the Royal Navy at the very early age of thirty-nine, pending the retirement of Sir James White. He resigned in 1889 to join the firm of Maudslay, Sons & Field.[3] He died on 4 September, 1891, at Walton-on-Thames, aged forty-three.[4] Sir William White wrote of him, "… a man who by what he had done and dared had helped the cause of marine engineering in many ways, and in a manner which had yet to recognised."[5]

Footnotes

  1. Navy List (September, 1885). p. 255, p. 299.
  2. London Gazette: no. 25525. p. 5026. 3 November, 1885.
  3. Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects (1917). p. 230.
  4. "Deaths" (Deaths). The Times. Monday, 7 September, 1891. Issue 33423, col A, pg. 1.
  5. Brown. p. 76.

Bibliography

Service Record


Naval Offices
Preceded by
James Wright
Engineer-in-Chief
1886 – 1889
Succeeded by
John Durston