Archibald Barr [SEP] educated at
Craig & Co in Paisley before attending University of Glasgow to study engineering.
In 1885 he married Isabella Young.
Barr first worked as assistant to James Thomson, the Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow, a post Barr was to attain himself later in his career. He was subsequently appointed to the chair of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the Yorkshire College (since 1904 the University of Leeds).
Barr was a motoring enthusiast and as a member of the Scottish Automobile Club, he participated as an
Archibald Barr
Archibald Barr FRS FRSE LLD (18 November 1855, Glenfield House, Paisley, Renfrewshire – 5 August 1931) was a Scottish scientific engineer, inventor and businessman. He was a co-founder of Barr & Stroud, and invented the Barr & Stroud Rangefinder.
Life.
Archibald was born in Glenfield House in Abbey, near Paisley, the third son of Archibald Barr, a yarn merchant, and Jeanie Stirrat, Barr was educated at Paisley Grammar School and apprenticed as an engineer to A F