John Jonathan KERMODE ^3,10,13

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  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Civil Engineer MIME / MSA.

• RESIDENCE (Land, Census etc), 1881, 9 Atholl St Peel IOM / IM5 1HG.

• Obituary, 21 Nov 1931, Peel City Guardian.

CAREER

ONE of the best-known and most popular of Liverpool Manxmen is Mr. J. J. Kermode, consulting engineer. Mr Kermode is a. native of Peel, and he is very proud of the fact, while Peel people have good reason for pride that Mr. Kermode is one of them. He is an engineer of celebrity, and as an authority on marine and other machinery and naval architecture he is in the front rank. His inventions are many and of great value, notably those in regard to the application of liquid fuel in connection with marine and other boilers and industrial process furnaces. Mr. Kermode wields a ready pen, and is a frequent contributor to the technical journals and to the daily newspaper press. The following may be mentioned as some of the features of Mr Kermode's distinguished career : \emdash For many years lecturer on Engineering at the Liverpool School of Science. For nearly twenty years one of the principal members of the Engineering staff at baird's Birkenhead Ironworks. For many years identified with the courses of Free Lectures under the Liverpool Corporation Library, Museum, and Arts Committee. In 1902, commissioned by the British Admiralty to draft warship boilers for the use of oil fuel. Effected many improvements in Tea Drying Machinery for India and Ceylon ; in Glass Machinery and in various other industries. Effected improvements in Fire Brigade Equipment, notably in connection with Steam Motor Fire Engines fired with petroleum. Twelve years study and experimenting has enabled him to utilise for fuel the hitherto waste by-products of blast furnaces, of many chemical processes of gas works and other distilleries, as well as that of petroleum oil wells.