Albert Macklin

Albert Macklin
Position	Center
Teams	Princes Ice Hockey Club CPB Brussels
Born	October 28, 1886, Perth, Australia
Died	November 10, 1946, Cobham, England
Playing Career	1903 – 1910

Sir Albert Noel Campbell Macklin (October 28, 1886 - November 10, 1946) an Australian-born British hockey player who went on to become an innovative car manufacturer and boat designer. He won a gold medal with the British national team at the 1910 European Championship.

Biography

Macklin was born in Western Australia, the eldest son of Charles Campbell Macklin (1866–1918), a wealthy barrister, and his wife, Ada Louisa, née Lockyer (1863/4–1935). The family had moved to Wimbledon, London by 1891 and Macklin was educated at Eton College.

He spent his entire club hockey career, spanning from 1903 to 1910, with Princes Ice Hockey Club, with the exception of the 1906-07, when he played for Club des Patineurs de Bruxelles in Belgium.

Small in stature, Macklin played the position of center and was a member of the British national team at the inaugural 1910 European Championship in Les Avants.

Macklin fought in World War I as a member of the Royal Horse Artillery, where he served as a captian. Upon being hurt in action in France, he was invalided out in 1915, and returned to England, before joining the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) and later serving with the Dover Patrol.

After the war, Macklin took to designing cars and was co-founder of the Eric-Campbell car manufacturer in 1919. The company's name was a portmanteau of the second names of the founders. By 1920, Macklin had parted ways with Eric-Campbell and devoted himself to his new, short-lived, Silver Hawk car marque. In 1925 he founded the Invicta car manufacturer (with financial backing from Oliver Lyle), which traded until circa 1935, although by 1933 he was focused on his new Railton marque.

A charming and charismatic individual, he was knighted in 1944 for his endeavors in developing torpedo boats for use by the Royal Navy in World War II. He had founded the Fairmile Marine company in 1939. As the company did not have the necessary capital to meet the Admiralty needs, it became a semi-independent department of the Admiralty coordinating the supply of parts to build the vessels at boatyards around the country. As recompense for the loss of his company, Macklin was paid a large sum and awarded a salary.

He was married twice, first in March 1912 to Esmé Victoria (b. 1887), daughter of Hinton Stewart of Strathgarry, Perthshire, but they were divorced in 1919. His second marriage was to (Lucy) Leslie Cordery (1896–1980), the sister of his RNVR driver, Violette Cordery. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that Lucy's name was variously given as Leslie Lane Cordery and Leslie Cordery Lane, daughter of Henry Lane, farmer. The marriage produced two daughters and a son, Lance Macklin, the Formula 1 Racing driver

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