Naval architect. Son of Thomas Harvey, ship and yacht builder, and his first wife Mary Elizabeth, née Martin.
By 1851 he was working in his father's shipbuilding business at the Halifax Yard in Ipswich. He subsequently moved to his father's yard in Wivenhoe and took charge there, designing and building racing yachts.
On 22 April 1857 he was married at the New Christian Church in Argyle Square, St Pancras, to Mary Diana Mary, one of the daughters of Swedenborgian minister, teacher and phrenologist, Rev. David George Goyder. They had six children before her early death from tuberculosis in 1871. This personal disaster was followed by a business disaster when his Wivenhoe shipyard was destroyed by fire in August the following year.
The business recovered but in 1883 a further business failure led him to leave Wivenhoe and move to the United States where he spent over a decade working in and around New York designing prize-winning racing yachts. His son Charles joined him there and later became a naturalized US citizen.
Harvey retired and returned to England in 1897 and lived in Canonbury. In 1901 he moved to live with his son, John Martin Harvey, now a successful actor, in Regent's Park. He died there from cancer of the liver.
No record of his burial has yet been traced. At the time of his death, John Martin Harvey was very heavily involved in theatrical work so a burial at the St Marylebone Cemetery seems most likely.
Naval architect. Son of Thomas Harvey, ship and yacht builder, and his first wife Mary Elizabeth, née Martin.
By 1851 he was working in his father's shipbuilding business at the Halifax Yard in Ipswich. He subsequently moved to his father's yard in Wivenhoe and took charge there, designing and building racing yachts.
On 22 April 1857 he was married at the New Christian Church in Argyle Square, St Pancras, to Mary Diana Mary, one of the daughters of Swedenborgian minister, teacher and phrenologist, Rev. David George Goyder. They had six children before her early death from tuberculosis in 1871. This personal disaster was followed by a business disaster when his Wivenhoe shipyard was destroyed by fire in August the following year.
The business recovered but in 1883 a further business failure led him to leave Wivenhoe and move to the United States where he spent over a decade working in and around New York designing prize-winning racing yachts. His son Charles joined him there and later became a naturalized US citizen.
Harvey retired and returned to England in 1897 and lived in Canonbury. In 1901 he moved to live with his son, John Martin Harvey, now a successful actor, in Regent's Park. He died there from cancer of the liver.
No record of his burial has yet been traced. At the time of his death, John Martin Harvey was very heavily involved in theatrical work so a burial at the St Marylebone Cemetery seems most likely.
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