British mechanical engineer
Percy Graham Buchanan Westmacott (1830 Edinburgh – 10 September 1917) was a British mechanical engineer.[1][2][3]
Westmacott undertook his apprenticeship at Miller, Ravenhill & Co, Blackwall. He joined W.G. Armstrong's Elswick Works as a draughtsman in 1851. By 1864 he was a partner in the company and in 1882 he became Managing Director.[4]
He married Annette Beatrice (née Berners); their children were:
- Evelyn Westmacott (born c 1862)
- Claude Berners Westmacott (born 1865)[5]
- Henry A. Westmacott (born 1866)
- John Westmacott (born c 1873)
- Lewis Westmacott (born 3 August 1871, died 27 November 1949) Married 20 April 1898, Evelyn Bayley, of Dublin.
- Mabel Westmacott (born c 1876)
- Rachel Westmacott (born c 1878)
- Gerald Westmacott (born c April 1880)[6]
- A Victorian Engineer: the life of Percy G. B. Westmacott (1830–1917), Editors Mabel Noble, Dorothy Boyd. 1973, Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd.