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Here, Robin Longbottom examines how an engineer born in Keighley went on to play a crucial role in the design of battleships BEHIND St Thomas’ Church at Sutton-in-Craven is a low, unassuming memorial to John Gordon Longbottom – who died aged 54 in 1924. The inscription on it describes him as ‘Late Professor of Mechanics Royal Technical College Glasgow’. Although he was born in Keighley in 1869 he belonged to a well-established Sutton family that had lived in King’s Court, off the High Street, for some three generations. The family had been textile machine makers and mechanics since the end of the 18th century and therefore it is not surprising that John followed in his ancestors’ footsteps and went into engineering.
Obituary: James Vincent Whitworth II
SCARBOROUGH - In the early morning of March 1, 2021, James Jim passed away peacefully in his sleep and joined his .
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James Vincent Whitworth II
SCARBOROUGH – In the early morning of March 1, 2021, James “Jim” passed away peacefully in his sleep and joined his wife Peggy in Heaven.
Jim was born in Lowell, Mass. in 1936, joined the navy at 17, and married his sweetheart Doris “Peggy” Eno in 1955. They shared five children and 58 years of marriage.
He began his career in engineering at Raytheon in Massachusetts, then moved to Fairchild Semiconductor in South Portland. While in Maine, he began his career in real estate as a broker. He and Peggy would later move to Las Vegas in 1976, where he would eventually become president of the Las Vegas Board of Realtors in 1988 and be appointed by the governor to the Nevada Real Estate Commission. Jim and Peggy remained in Las Vegas until 2004, when they returned to South Portland to ret
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