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John Harper Narbeth continued

He died at Gloucester and was cremated.   His wife, Aquila Elizabeth, predeceased him in 1931 and is buried at Hastings cemetery.   He left two sons,  Charles A.  MBE,  who worked at the  Air Ministry London,  and Jack, B.  Sc.  of the Naval Base New Zealand. and four granddaughters,  Eve, Elizabeth Anne, Jacqueline and Jennifer.  

Post war, Charles and his family also lived in Hastings at 109 St Helens Road and his daughters' marriages are recorded in the Hastings Observer.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Hastings Observer 27.5.1944
The Times 23.5.1944
Ancestry.co.uk

Designer of Famous Warships Dies Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) Wednesday 24 May 1944 Designer of Famous Warships Dies LONDON (A;A.P.)-The famous warship designer and director during the last war of naval construction, Mr. J. H. Narbeth, C.B., C.B.E., died yesterday at the age of 81. Although he retired in 1923, Mr. Narbeth took a keen interest in technical and scientific ... 110 words

Naval Designer's Death Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946) Sunday 28 May 1944 - Naval Designer's Death - Mr. J. H. Narbeth died in England last week in his 81st year. The son of a Methodist local preacher, he worked in naval dockyards as a youth and' became a battleship designer in the Admiralty from 1887 to 1923. From 1919 to. 1923 he was Assistant Director of Naval ... 55 words