Marshall Thomas Wilton Eady (born Summer Hill, Sydney, Australia 18 November 1882; died Melbourne, Australia 8 December 1947) was an

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He was the oldest child of William Wilton Eady, a native at the time, and a Scottish woman named Barbara Rose. When Eady's father died in 1892, the family moved to Melbourne, where his uncle, Sir William McPherson, cared for them. Eady was an engineering

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Austral Otis Austral Otis was a Melbourne engineering works established in 1887 on site of former Langlands foundry in Grant Street, South Melbourne. It was one of the largest manufacturers of elevators in Australia and continued as the Otis Elevator Company. ...

before joining his uncle's firm, McPherson's Pty. Ltd., where he remained until his death. McPherson died of a

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at the wheel of his car in 1947. He was survived by his wife and three children.

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1882 births 1947 deaths 20th-century Australian engineers {{Australia-engineer-stub