Henry Adolph Salvesen

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

DL JP (5 June 1860–13 May 1924) was a 19th-century Scottish mechanical engineer and naval architect of Norwegian descent.

Life

He was born at Weedingshall in

Polmont Polmont ( gd, Poll-Mhonadh) is a village in the Falkirk council area of Central Scotland. It lies towards the east of the town of Falkirk, north of the Union Canal, which runs adjacent to the village. Due to its situation in Central Scotland, ...

near Falkirk on 5 June 1860 one of at least nine children of Anna Nathalia and Johannis Theodore Salvesen who had come to Scotland from Norway in 1846. He was educated at Blairlodge School in Polmont the

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Collegiate School. He then studied engineering at the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

training as a naval architect. He appears to have detached himself wholly from the family firm of

Christian Salvesen Christian Salvesen was a Scottish whaling, transport and logistics company with a long and varied history, employing 13,000 staff and operating in seven countries in western Europe. In December 2007, it was acquired by French listed transport ...

but was perhaps involved in ship design for them. From 1882 he joined his father's firm of J T Salvesen & Co, shipowners, timber importers and coal exporters, based in Grangemouth. He also operated for many years from Greenock. He was a keen car enthusiast, owning a 6 hp Daimler, a 10 hp steam-car of his own design, and a 12 hp Benz. In 1923 (aged 63) he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Theodore Salvesen,

William Archer Tait William Archer Porter Tait FRSE FRMS MICE (1866–1929) was a 19th/20th century Scottish civil engineer and part of the Guthrie Tait dynasty. He was Vice President of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1929. Life He was born on 25 Marc ...

, Sir

Edmund Taylor Whittaker Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (24 October 1873 – 24 March 1956) was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Whittaker was a leading mathematical scholar of the early 20th-century who contributed widely to applied mathema ...

and Sir Robert Blyth Greig. He died at Lathallan House near Falkirk on 13 May 1924. The company of J T Salvesen & Co was dissolved following his death.London Gazette 7 January 1927

Family

His uncle was

. He was cousin to

Edward Theodore Salvesen The Hon. Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen (20 July 1857 – 23 February 1942) was a Scottish lawyer, politician and judge who rose to be a Senator of the College of Justice. Life Edward Theodore Salvesen was the son of Christian Frede ...

and Theodore Emile Salvesen. He married Dagmar Marie Becker around 1880, and they had at least seven children, including Meta Natalie Salvesen (1883-1959).

References

1860 births 1924 deaths People from Polmont Alumni of the University of Edinburgh British naval architects Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish people of Norwegian descent {{UK-engineer-stub