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William Broughton Carr (1836–1909), was a British author and beekeeper. He invented a type of beehive.
Carr designed the
''Essays in Beekeeping History: William Broughton Carr (Part 1)''
Bee Craft, 2009
''Introduction: or, early history of bees and honey''
Salford: J. Roberts.
Biography
William Broughton Carr was born in Bracewell, Yorkshire, in 1836, the son of Robert Carr, a butcher, and his wife Ann. Carr was a copperplate engraver and business man (printer) in Liverpool. He later lived inHigher Bebington
Bebington () is a town and unparished area within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it lies south of Liverpool, close to the River Mersey on the eastern side of the Wirral Peninsula. Ne ...
on the Wirral and kept bees before he was invited down to London by Thomas William Cowan to set up and help edit the Bee Journal.
Carr was the co-editor of the ''British Bee Journal, and Bee-Keepers' Record and Adviser'' and also contributed articles to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Carr designed the WBC
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style of beehive and published his design in 1890.
Carr died in London in 1909.Karl Showier''Essays in Beekeeping History: William Broughton Carr (Part 1)''
Bee Craft, 2009
Bibliography
''Introduction: or, early history of bees and honey''
Salford: J. Roberts.
References
Sources
British beekeepers Beekeeping pioneers 19th-century English writers 1837 births 1909 deaths {{bee-stub