59.1 Siblings of Alfred Squire

John and Harriet Squire had six children in Wandsworth. These are Alfred's siblings.

• 59.1.1 - Mary Squire (1881-1882). 
• Died in infancy

• 59.1.2 - Cecil Edward Squire (1882)
• Born Wandsworth
• Attended Kingston Grammar School, and Christ's Hospital, Newgate Street.
• 1899: Apprenticed to Ambrose Shardlow, Engineers, Sheffield - turning and general machine tool work, fitting and millwright's work. It is significant that he went back to Sheffield, it suggests that he was close to his mother's side of the family after his father died in London.
• Shardlow made a variety of products from micrometers to heavy presses. At about the time Cecil was there, they started to specialise in crankshafts. Some time after WWI, they won the contract to supply Ford UK with all its crankshafts. In WWII, and beyond, they made Roll Royce aero-engine crankshafts. They were part of GKN for 20 years until British Steel bought the forging operation, when Italian forging company Bifranji bought out Shardlow, merging it with what had once been Clayton & Shuttleworth.

Shardlow micrometer (for sale)

Rolls-Royce Merlin aero-engine (my photo)

• 1901: Joined Willford & Co, the largest railway spring manufacturers. Millwright, foreman engineer, for a short time draughtsman, then order clerk, purchase clerk. Works Manager since 1909.
• London University matriculation 1904; Sheffield University Technical Department Evening Classes 1899-1908, where he won a scholarship and numerous prizes.
• During this time he also built his own motor cycles. He was always a keen motorist.
• 1911: Boarder at 11 Filey Street, Eccleshall, a manager at the Railway Spring Works. His landlord was a scissor manufacturer at the Wheatsheaf Works, who held patents.
• Married Dorothy Bingley 1885-1915) at St Oswald, Sheffield in 1915. She had three sisters and two brothers; her father was a clerk with the county council.
• In 1918-1919, he was received into the Institution of Mechanical Engineers [and became a full member in 1927]. (This record has informed the history above.) He is asserted to have invented, designed and constructed throughout a calculating machine for equations.
• 1918: Lodged a patent application for this machine in the USA.

Illustration from Cecil Squire's Patent

• 1919: at 133 Ringinglow Road, Ecclesall. General Manager at Willford's. Willford's operated from the Park House Works. It's worth remembering that Cecil's maternal grandfather made railway springs in Sheffield, a business taken over by his aunt Annie's husband, Henry Green. A freemason from 1921.
• Children:
• Edward Raymond Squire (1918)
• Joan Squire (1921)
• Betty Squire (1921)
• Grace's Guide has an entry for him, which confirms the above (possibly from the same source), but adds: 

"He joined the board of directors in 1926 as joint managing director and was subsequently made managing director, a position which he filled until his death, which occurred on 30th September 1942. Mr. Squire was entirely responsible for the design and manufacturing side of the business, in addition to the carrying out of tests and inspection of materials. 

"He also invented and personally constructed a calculating machine for springs and was the author of several papers on spring manufacture and design. In addition he represented spring manufacturers on many committees and was chairman of the Technical Committee of the Heavy Coil Spring Federation."

• In 1938, Jonas Woodhead & Sons bought a controlling interest. They were eventually bought by ThyssenKrupp, and operated in Leeds from 1999 to 2016, when it flooded and was closed.
• His old college obituary reports that he died suddenly on 30 September 1942, aged 60, when on his way to a technical meeting in London. 

• 59.1.3 - Rupert Henry Squire (1882-1960)
• 1911: At home with his widowed mother at 7 Brunswick Road, Kingston. He was an engineer's draughtsman at a steelworks and rolling mill.
• 1916: Became a freemason. Profession: pottery manager.
• There are no obvious potteries, or steelworks close to Kingston, and not many obvious in London. Doulton in Lambeth (10 miles NE) is a contender for the pottery. 
• However, there was a very notable presence in Kingston before, during and after WWI. The Sopwith Aviation factory was less than half a mile away from the family home. In 1912, it was built on the site of the Edwardian skating rink in Canbury Park Road, and a second factory was built a further block down the road. It was here that the famous Sopwith Camel was built. The Experimental Shop over the road developed the Hurricane in WWII (The Register). Finally a National Aircraft Factory was planned 2 miles north-west of their home - in the event it was constructed by Sopwith themselves. After the war, Trojan vans were made there. Hawker ended Leyland's lease in 1949, and built Hunters, Kestrels and Harriers there. The building was closed by BAe in 1991, and demolished in 1993.

Sopwith Camel (my photo)

• Married Vera Constance Paton (1900-1981) in Calcutta in 1918. She had a brother and sister; her father was born in Stirling, Scotland and was a colliery manager at the time of his own marriage in Calcutta.
• A flu pandemic started in India in June that year, which killed at least 12 million people (5% of the population of India).
• 1919: I don't know how much sibling rivalry was going on here but Rupert also had a patent.

"Direct liquid-pressure apparatus. - Solid material such as sand for filling mine workings &c. is elevated and transported from a river bed &c. by means of a vessel which is placed in or sunk into the material so that the latter may enter therein, after which water is forced into the vessel to expel the material through a delivery pipe. In the form shown, the vessel a has a perforated shoe g through which water from a pipe h is admitted to displace the sand &c. and facilitate sinking of the vessel. Sand &c. then enters the vessel through an opening b which is afterwards closed by a valve c actuated by water supplied through a pipe f. Water is then admitted through a pipe c to deliver the sand &c. through a pipe d to a hopper &c. The cycle is then repeated. Suitably timed valve gear may automatically control the operation. The vessel may comprise two or more receiving-chambers which may be charged successively."

• Children:
• Marguerite Alice Constance Squire (1920)
• Roland Henry Traviss Squire (1921)
• Donald Hugh Squire (1923)
• 1923: Arrived with his family in Southampton from Australia (India having been last permanent home) on the Moreton Bay. He was an engineer, and they proposed to stay at 7 Bromswich Road, Kingston.
• Later, he was a Chartered Structural Engineer, still in Kingston.

• 59.1.4 - Alfred Eustace Squire (1885-1944)
• See Chapter 59

• 59.1.5 - Phyllis Margaret Squire (1886-1965)
• Married Albert Edmund Clayton (1886-1958) at St Paul, Kingston in 1912. He was an electrical engineer. He had at least a brother and a sister; his father was a gardener.

St Paul, Kingston Hill (L S Wilson)

• Albert served as a Staff Sergeant with the Royal Engineers in WWI. He enlisted in Leicester, where Margaret was born, in March 1916 (giving a Kingston address). He was transferred to the London Electrical Engineers and served at the RE School in Gosport. He was dispersed in January 1919 from Crystal Palace.
• Children:
• Margaret Clayton (1914)
• Evelyn Maude Clayton (1921)
• Sylvia Phyllis Clayton (1928)
• Later he was a consultant, and university lecturer in electrical engineering, and they lived in Cheadle. He wrote several textbooks and articles on electrical engineering.

• 59.1.6 - Rowland Henry Squire (1888-1890)
• Died in infancy

More on these individuals in Chapter 62.

Next (Alfred's paternal cousins)