Sir Edward Hamer Carbutt, 1st Baronet (22 July 1838 – 8 October 1905) was an English mechanical engineer and a Liberal politician. He served as President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Biography

Carbutt was the youngest son of Francis Carbutt (1792–1874) of Chapel Allerton in Leeds. His father was a merchant and some-time mayor of Leeds and his elder sister

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was an educationalist. He was a linen and cloth merchant who became a

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in 1848/1849, and a director of the

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. Edward Carbutt went into business as a mechanical engineer in Leeds. When he was 24 (circa 1862) he entered into partnership with the engineer Robinson Thwaites (1811–1884) in the Vulcan Iron Works at

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. Carbutt and Thwaites exhibited a 'Patent Double-Action Self-Acting Steam Hammer' at the 1862 London Exhibition. Carbutt and Thwaites petitioned for a further patent 'for the invention of improvements in hammers to be worked by steam or other fluid' in 1867. He was a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He entered local politics and was Mayor of Leeds in 1878 and in this role laid the foundation stone of civic buildings. In 1880 he was elected as MP for Monmouth Boroughs and held the seat until 1886. On 1 October 1892, he was made a baronet, of Nanhurst in the parish of Cranleigh in the

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. In 1896 he was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey. In 1887 Carbutt was elected President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He represented the Institute on the committee of the National Physical Laboratory. He was also a vice president of the Iron and Steel Institute. In 1891 he was concerned with the erection of a tower at Wembley to rival the Eiffel Tower in Paris.London Daily News ''Sir Edward's Tower'' 10 August 1891, Wednesday
/ref> In 1874 Carbutt married Mary Rhodes. The baronetcy became extinct on his death.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carbutt, Sir Edward, 1st Baronet 1838 births 1905 deaths People from Chapel Allerton Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 Mayors of Leeds English mechanical engineers High Sheriffs of Surrey British ironmasters Engineers from Yorkshire Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)