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Laurence Hartnett
Sir Laurence John Hartnett CBE (26 May 18984 April 1986) was an engineer who made several important contributions to the Australian automotive industry, and is often called 'The Father of the Holden'.
==Childhood==
Hartnett was born into a middle-class family in Woking, England. His mother, Katherine Jane Taplin, was the daughter of Wiltshire farmer George Taplin and his wife Kate.〔Remembrance of Kate Taplin, wife of George Taplin, born 21 May 1839 died 19 September 1876 Hartnett Papers, Melbourne University Archives〕 His father, Irish born John Joseph Hartnett, was a doctor and inventor of patent medicines〔Advertisement for 'Borreno' Hartnett Papers, Melbourne University Archives〕 from Clonakilty, County Cork, who had an M.D. from Dublin and in 1892 had published a pamphlet on the treatment of tuberculosis.〔J.J. Hartnett ''Antiseptic Treatment of Pulmonary Consumption'' London: Henry Renshaw, 1892〕 In addition he had invented an inhaling machine by means of which tubercular patients could breathe fresh, dry, medicated air.〔R.Y. Keers ''Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Journey Down the Centuries'' London: Ballière Tindall, 1978 pp. 68, 70, 112〕 John Hartnett and Katherine Taplin married in Portsmouth on 1 May 1897 and went to live in Woking where in March of the following year their only child, Laurence (known as Larry) was born.〔Hartnett to Gina Hartnett 23 February 1982, 23 March 1982; John Hartnett to florence () 16 July 1897 Hartnett Papers, Melbourne University Archives〕 The latter, however, was to retain no memory of his father who died nine months later.〔K. Hartnett to D.J. McCarthy 6 July 1899 Hartnett Papers, Melbourne University Archives〕 Shortly afterwards, mother and son went to live with Katherine's childless sister and brother-in-law for whom Katherine acted as housekeeper, initially in Southsea and then in Kingston-upon-Thames.〔Joe Rich ''Hartnett: Portrait of a Technocratic Brigand'' Sydney: Turton & Armstrong, 1996 p.2〕 Larry began his schooling in 1903 in the home of a pair of middle-aged spinsters who taught him and some eight or nine other children in their dining room. From there he graduated two years later to Kingston Grammar School and from 1909 he attended Epsom College, which specialised in educating the sons of doctors who were, themselves, generally destined to enter that profession. Larry had obtained a foundation scholarship, offered to those doctors’ sons whose families could not afford the fees.〔C.J. Swete ''A Handbook of Epsom'' East Ardsley, Wakefield: E.P. Publishing Ltd, 1973 p. 63; G. Home ''Epsom: Its History and its Surroundings'' London: The Homeland Association, 1901 p.42; Epsom College School List 1910 p. 5-6, in Epsom College archives〕 In his first year, the school’s Natural History Society created an Aeroplane Section in which he took a close interest, pasting photos of aircraft and newspaper cuttings about aviation into an exercise book as well as making detailed drawings of their parts and participating in the construction of a full-sized glider which the Section launched on a five hundred metre flight in 1912. Epsom was the first school in England to include aeronautical training as an optional extra subject.〔''Epsomian'' 30 October 1909 pp. 1, 10, 13, 7 December 1910, 22 January 1911, 26 October 1911, 1 November 1913; L.J. Hartnett to A.C. Scadding 16 September 1984, Exercise Books headed ‘Aeronautics’ 1912 in Hartnett Papers, Melbourne University Archives〕 While College records show that Hartnett did not on the whole shine academically, in 1914 an essay he wrote on China won the Epsom College geography prize for which he received a book called ''Engineering Today'' by Thomas Corbin.〔Epsom College School Lists, in Epsom College Archives; Epsomian 28 February 1914〕
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