Qualla: Edward Harland https://qualla.com/edward-harland en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/w/edward-harland-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Edward Harland https://qualla.com/edward-harland Edward Harland: Introduction https://qualla.com/edward-harland/ Photo credit Peter Clarke at English Wikipedia, Public domain. He arrived in Belfast in 1854, twenty-three years old, sent over to manage Robert Hickson's struggling shipyard at Queen's Island. Four years later he bought it. Three years after that he made his German-born personal assistant a partner. The name they painted on the gates - Harland and Wolff - would, by the end of the century, dominate the skyline of east Belfast with hundred-foot gantries and the largest passenger ships ever built. Edward Harland did not live to see Titanic slide down the slipway in 1911. He had died on Christmas Eve 1895, sixteen years too soon. But the firm that bore his name was already, by then, the largest shipbuilder in the world.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/w/edward-harland-wp/gcew-edward-harland-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Edward Harland: The Apprentice from Scarborough https://qualla.com/edward-harland/ Photo credit Peter Clarke at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Edward James Harland was born on 15 May 1831 in Newborough, a neighbourhood within Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast. His father William was a physician; his mother Anne came from Goathland on the moors. Edward was the seventh of ten children and the fourth of six boys. In 1846,...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/w/edward-harland-wp/gcew-edward-harland-the-apprentice-from-scarborough.mp3 0:06 2 full Edward Harland: The Partnership That Made the Yard https://qualla.com/edward-harland/ Photo credit Peter Clarke at English Wikipedia, Public domain. During his Newcastle apprenticeship, Harland had met a German-born financier named Gustav Christian Schwabe. The connection mattered. When Harland bought Hickson's shipyard on 21 September 1858 - taking control of the operation on 1 November - Schwabe became one of his backers. I...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/w/edward-harland-wp/gcew-edward-harland-the-partnership-that-made-the-yard.mp3 0:06 3 full Edward Harland: Statesman of the Empire https://qualla.com/edward-harland/ Photo credit Peter Clarke at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Harland did not stay only with iron and rivets. He served as a Belfast harbour commissioner and as Mayor of Belfast, helping shape the port that his yard depended on. In 1885 he was knighted and made a baronet. He was a member of the Conservative and Unionist Party, and in 1889 -...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/w/edward-harland-wp/gcew-edward-harland-statesman-of-the-empire.mp3 0:06 4 full Edward Harland: Christmas Eve, 1895 https://qualla.com/edward-harland/ Photo credit Peter Clarke at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Harland died on 24 December 1895 at Glenfarne Hall, his Irish home in County Leitrim. He was sixty-four. He left no heir to his baronetcy. A statue of him now stands in the grounds of Belfast City Hall, and the firm of Harland and Wolff continued without him for another century a...

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