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THE death is announced in Engineering for October 15 of SIR JOHN MCLAREN, who was well known in Leeds engineering circles. Sir John was born in 1850, and finished his education at Durham University. He started in business in 1876 with his brother, and his firm carried out many important contracts. When the war broke out he was made chairman of the board of management of the National Factories for Munitions in Leeds. He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 249 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106249c0
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