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WE deeply regret to record the death of Sir William Mather, at his residence in the New Forest, on Saturday last, September 18. Sir William was born in Manchester in 1838, and educated at private schools, and his studies were continued under one of his English tutors at Dresden. Afterwards he entered his father's engineering firm, well known as the Salford Iron Works, and worked the usual hours of apprentices, in the evenings attending lectures at the Owens College, Manchester. In 1862, when he was twenty-four years of age, he became solely responsible for the management of the business. The firm enjoyed great repute as makers of bleaching, dyeing, finishing, and other textile machinery, exporting its products abroad, especially to Russia and the United States, in which countries Sir William travelled extensively. He took the greatest interest in the well-being of his employees, his firm being among the first to establish the eight hours' day, and providing for his young workers, more than forty years ago, the means of continued instruction in the fundamental principles of engineering science, at the hands of his chief technical officers, and with striking results, many of the students gaining Whitworth and other science scholarships.
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The Right Hon. Sir William Mather. Nature 106, 118–119 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106118a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106118a0