Sir William Arrol
New York Times
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
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LONDON, Feb. 20.-Sir William Arrol, biggest of British bridge builders, is dead. He constructed the present bridge over the Tay and that crossing the Firth of Forth. He was made a knight in 1890 and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Englneers. Sir William was born in 1839. He married Miss Elizabeth Patterson in 1864. In 1905, a year after his first wife's death, he wedded Miss Hodgart of Lockerbank, Ayrshire.
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