John Randall (shipbuilder)

He took a prominent part in founding the Society of Naval Architects.

[1] On the Peace of Amiens, Randall lowered his rates of pay from the wartime level, and his men went out on strike.

The Admiralty permitted him to take on workmen from the Deptford dockyard, and offered a military force to protect them, which was turned down.

The Deptford men were prevented from working in his yard; and some violence occurred.

At this point Randall died, at his house in Great Cumberland Street, Hyde Park, on 23 August 1802.