McLARTY, DAVID LYON (1889-1962), engineer and dockyard director, was born on 22 September 1889 at Penang, Straits Settlements (Malaysia), son of Farquhar Matheson McLarty, mechanical engineer, and his wife Wilhelmina, née Lyon. Educated at the Collegiate School, Greenock, and at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, Lyon was apprenticed to Scott & Sons, shipbuilders and repairers. He transferred to the firm's drawing office, joined John Brown & Co. Ltd, shipbuilders of Clydebank, and became assistant works manager with Barclay, Curie & Co. Ltd, shipbuilders. On 2 April 1921 at St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, he married with Episcopalian rites Meta Dusha Tucker, an office manageress; they were to have no children, but gave ready affection to those of friends. From 1922 McLarty was based in China as assistant general manager of the Shanghai Dock & Engineering Co. Ltd. Reaching Sydney in 1925, he joined the staff of Cockatoo Island Dockyard. He ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography