page_title: Ernest William Moir
section_title: Family life
hierarchical_section_title: Ernest William Moir / Family life
caption_attribution_description: English: The grave of Ernest William Moir at Brookwood Cemetery This is a photo of listed building number 1391043.
context_page_description: Sir Ernest William Moir was a British civil engineer and the first Moir baronet. He is credited with inventing the first medical airlock while working on the Hudson River Tunnel in New York in 1889.
context_section_description: Moir married Margaret Bruce Pennycook (1862–1942) on 1 June 1887.
  Ernest William Moir died in 1933 aged 79 and is buried in the family plot at Brookwood Cemetery under a monument which is Grade II listed. This features a bronze profile portrait of Moir's son 2nd Lieutenant Reginald 'Rex' Moir (1893–1915) of the Royal Engineers, who died of meningitis in the Officers' Hospital in London. The angel sculpture surmounting the pedestal is by Lilian Wade. He was succeeded to the title by his second son, Sir Arrol Moir (1894–1957), named after William Arrol, his first benefactor.
  He was survived by his wife Margaret, Lady Moir OBE, who described herself as "an engineer by marriage" as she had travelled with her husband on his many engineering projects. During World War I she organised the Weekend Relief Work Scheme whereby substitute workers covered for the women working in munitions factories allowing them time off. She herself worked as a relief lathe operator for 18 months. Lady Moir was a co-founder of the Women's Engineering Society in 1919.
caption: The Grade II listed Moir family grave in Brookwood Cemetery
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