Sir Edward Hamer Carbutt, 1st Baronet was an English mechanical engineer who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Liberal politician.
Background
Carbutt was the youngest son of Francis Carbutt (1792–1874), a linen and cloth merchant of Chapel Allerton in Leeds who was a justice of the peace, Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1848/1849, and a director of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway.
Career
Edward Carbutt went into business as a mechanical engineer in Leeds. Carbutt and Thwaites exhibited a "Patent Double-Action Self-Acting Steam Hammer" in the 1862 London Exhibition. Carbutt and Thwaites petitioned for a further patent "for the invention of improvements in hammers to be worked by steam or other fluid" in 1867.
He entered local politics and was Mayor of Leeds in 1878 and in this role laid the foundation stone of civic buildings.
In 1880 he was elected as Member of Parliament for Monmouth Boroughs and held the seat until 1886. On 1 October 1892 he was made a baronet, of Nanhurst, Surrey.
In 1896 he was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey. In 1887 Carbutt was elected President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
He represented the Institute on the committee of the National Physical Laboratory.
He was also a vice-president of the Iron and Steel Institute. In 1891 he was concerned with the erection of a tower at Wembley to rival the Eiffel Tower in Paris. In 1874 Carbutt married Mary Rhodes.
The baronetcy became extinct on his death.
Membership
22nd United Kingdom Parliament. 23rd United Kingdom Parliament]
He was a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Institution of Civil Engineers.