Sir Harry Samuel Bickerton Brindley KBE (1867–1920) was a British engineer, armaments businessman and manufacturer.

Brindley was born in September 1867 in Handsworth, near Birmingham.^[1] His father, G. S. Brindley, was an engineer and mechanics instructor at the Imperial College of Engineering in Japan,^[2] where the younger was subsequently raised and educated.^[3] He graduated from Tokyo University with an engineering degree in 1883.^[4]

While living in Tokyo, he received a United States patent for 1902 hydraulic or other fluid controlling valve.^[5]

In 1915, Brindley assumed management of the Ponders End Shell Works, devoted to WWI production.^[6][7][8] After the war, Winston Churchill wrote that Brindley's work at Ponders end "proved of the highest value to the Ministry of Munitions, and he has succeeded in a remarkable degree in enlisting the enthusiasm of the workers in the manufacture of shells."^[9]

Following the war, Brindley sought to share the methods of industrial efficiency that he had developed at Ponder's end.^[10] In 1919 he was a co-initiator of the British Institute of Industrial Administration.^[11][12]

After the war, Ponders End employees petitioned the Freemasons for a lodge to be named after Brindley.^[7] The request was successful, after it was supported by Winston Churchill. Brindley was chosen to be the first Master.^[9]

Brindley died on 28 March 1920.^[1] Three days after his death, Brindley was posthumously gazetted as a Knight of the British Empire.^[13]