William Broughton Carr


William Broughton Carr, was a British author and beekeeper. He invented a type of beehive.

Biography

William Broughton Carr was born in Bracewell, Yorkshire, in 1836, the son of Robert Carr, a butcher, and his wife Ann. He died in London in 1909. Carr was a copperplate engraver and business man in Liverpool. He later lived in Higher Bebington on the Wirral and kept bees before he was invited down to London by Thomas William Cowan to set up and help edit the Bee Journal.
Carr was the editor of the "Bee Journal and Record" and also contributed articles to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Carr designed the WBC style of beehive and published his design in 1890.