Biography
He was the middle son (of three) of shipbuilder Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow Bart.
He apprenticed 1911 in engineering at D. Napier & Sons London and later with W.H. Allen, Sons & Co. Ltd., Bedford in 1912, later joining the family firm Yarrow & Co. Ltd. in Glasgow.
In 1913 he took over the B.C. Marine Railway Co. Ltd. when the firm was acquired as Yarrows Ltd. as Managing Director, retiring in 1946. His only son was killed in an automobile accident while a university student in the UK.
He sold the company to Burrard Dry Dock Company in Vancouver BC in 1946.
He married Ada Hope and they had three children: two daughters and a son.
He was a Director of the BC Power Corporation and a member of the Advisory Board of the Victoria Branch of the Royal Trust Co.
He owned property on Yarrow Point (BC).
Named Features
Yarrow Point (BC) (east side of Saanich Inlet west of Coles Bay).
References
- Taylor, G.W. (1982)
- Burke's Peerage and Baronatage (105th ed). (1975) London: Burke's Peerage Ltd.
