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398:, the locomotive engineer, of whom Edward Harland's father was a friend. Harland served as an apprentice in Newcastle until 1851. During the apprenticeship, Harland met Gustav Christian Schwabe, who knew Dr. Thomas Harland, Edward's uncle; Schwabe was a partner in John Bibby & Sons, a shipping company based in
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store. Edward was the seventh child of ten, and the fourth boy of six. His antecedent brother died as an infant; Edward
Harland is described as the sixth child in the family by alternative sources. Dr. Harland was a physician and an amateur engineer; he invented a patented steam-powered carriage in
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Harland applied for several patents including, in 1860 for "improvements in constructing and covering the decks of ships and other floating bodies", in 1871 for "improvements in apparatus for propelling vessels", in 1878 for "improvements in screw-propellers." In 1880 Harland and his two partners
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He had an all-smelling nose as well as an all-seeing eye. One day he was walking rapidly along, and he suddenly stopped dead and sniffed at a saw-pit. In a flash the trapdoor was lifted and there squatting in the sawdust was a wizened little man, puffing at clay
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on industrial disputes in 1891. Harland then moved to London, and was re-elected unopposed twice in 1892 and 1895 and served as MP for the constituency until his death, on
Christmas Eve 1895, at his Irish home, Glenfarne Hall in
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decided to expand further and built their own engine works. Harland began having less involvement in the running of the shipyard, and in 1889 he retired from daily involvement in the business.
1306:: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and The Oxford Companion to Irish History state 1887; The London Gazette and The Oxford Companion to British History state 1889.
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I offer you my interest and goodwill in the shipyard at the Queen's Island, Belfast...for the sum of five thousand pounds...
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Harland's new company quickly attracted an order of three boats from John Bibby & Sons. These boats were named
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1325:. 24 April 1891. pp. 2238â2239.
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551:. In 1874 Edward Harland recruited
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1165:. British Broadcasting Corporation
1163:"BBC â A short history of Ireland"
988:Michael S. Moss (September 2004).
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1566:Burials at Belfast City Cemetery
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882:"Stephenson, Robert (1803â1859)"
259:. In 1846, aged 15, he took an
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226:Rosa Matilda Wann (1860-death)
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879:M.W. Kirby (September 2004).
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388:Robert Stephenson and Company
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1089:. Oxford University Press.
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553:William James Pirrie
515:Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
459:Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
320:Member of Parliament
297:William James Pirrie
289:Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
68:Edward James Harland
860:on 11 November 2007
592:1886 Home Rule Bill
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367:Marks & Spencer
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