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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Carpenter, William Lant, 1841-1890
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Description area
Dates of existence
1841-1890
History
William Lant Carpenter was a professor of Mechanical Engineering, born in 1841 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. In 1868 he married Ann (Annie) Grace Viret and he divorced her in 1881 after 13 years of marriage. In the 1880s, he was the principal and lecturer at the School of Submarine Telegraphy and Electrical Engineering in London, England.
He died on December 23, 1890, from shot wounds in his bedroom at his home in London, England.