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Frederick Richard Simms (12 August 1863 – 22 April 1944)〔M.I.M.E., M.I.A.E., M.I.Ae.E., M.S.E.; Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Member of the Institution of Automobile Engineers, Member of the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers, Member of the Society of Engineers〕 was a British mechanical engineer, businessman, prolific inventor and motor industry pioneer.〔 Simms coined the words "petrol" and "motorcar".〔Simms wrote from Berlin to his solicitor in London on 8 February 1891 telling Hendriks he had come to an agreement with Daimler and in that letter he uses ''petrol'' and ''motorcar''. Later Gottlieb Daimler claimed the word petrol had been in common use in England when he lived there in the 1860s.〕〔Death of Mr. F. R. Simms, ''The Times'', Monday, 24 April 1944; pg. 6〕 He founded the Royal Automobile Club, and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. ==Family and education== Simms was born in Hamburg Germany "of an old Warwickshire family",〔 the son of Frederick Louis Simms and his wife Antonia née Hermans. His Birmingham-born grandfather had established a trading company there to support the Newfoundland fishing fleet. Frederick Richard Simms' first wife was Austrian, his second, married 1910, was Mabel Louise, daughter of cotton merchant Joseph Worsley and they had two daughters, one of which was Rosemary Mabel who married the Artist Dennis Ramsay. He was educated in Germany and London and at the ''Polytechnischer Verein'' in Berlin after completing an apprenticeship with ''AG fur Automatischen Verkauf'' in Hamburg and Berlin.〔Richard A. Storey, 'Simms, Frederick Richard (1863–1944)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004〕 In a 1907 trip to the Alps, Simms discovered a waterfall near the village of Holzgau, now called the Simmswasserfall. Simms may have spread his talents a little thinly to be able to show a single outstanding achievement. His lasting significance is in his role as a catalyst and intermediary between Britain and Europe and to a lesser extent USA.〔 He died in his 81st year, at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire,〔 while living at Storth Oaks, Chislehurst, Kent.〔 His wife predeceased him.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederick Richard Simms」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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