Percy Graham Buchanan Westmacott (1830 Edinburgh – 10 September 1917) was a British mechanical engineer.Proceedings, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain), 1897Electrical engineer, Volume 11, 1892
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.
He married Annette Beatrice (née Berners); their children were: Evelyn Westmacott (born c 1862) Claude Berners Westmacott (born 1865) 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)
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Sources A Victorian Engineer: the life of Percy G. B. Westmacott (1830–1917), Editors Mabel Noble, Dorothy Boyd. 1973, Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd.
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