He was educated at Eton College (1885-1889) and King's College London (1890-1891) before working at Messrs. Robey and Co., Lincoln (1892-1894) and a Brush Electrical Engineering Company Limited factory at Loughborough, Leicestershire (1894-1896). Next he spent 1896 and part of the following year taking part on installing electric lights at Arundel Castle in Sussex, on central station work at the Wandsworth electric light station and building an electric plant for the Earl's Court Exhibition.
On 1 October 1898 he and Reginald J. Wallis-Jones formed a partnership as consulting engineers at 36 Great George Street just off Parliament Square in Westminster, continuing to install power plants and electric lighting. On 15 December 1898 he was elected an Associate of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, transferring to its class of Associate Members on 9 February the following year.
He died at 76 Westbourne Terrace in Paddington after a very short illness subsequent to an internal operation. The first part of his funeral was held at Christ Church Lancaster Gate. No grave monument survives, though he and his parents are commemorated by a window in the church's north transept.
Sources:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=5309293 - Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Volume 29, Issue 146, p 949
https://www.holytrinitysunningdale.co.uk/transforming-trinity/history12535/a-record-of-the-stained-glass/ - Holy Trinity Sunningdale - A record of the stained glass
He was educated at Eton College (1885-1889) and King's College London (1890-1891) before working at Messrs. Robey and Co., Lincoln (1892-1894) and a Brush Electrical Engineering Company Limited factory at Loughborough, Leicestershire (1894-1896). Next he spent 1896 and part of the following year taking part on installing electric lights at Arundel Castle in Sussex, on central station work at the Wandsworth electric light station and building an electric plant for the Earl's Court Exhibition.
On 1 October 1898 he and Reginald J. Wallis-Jones formed a partnership as consulting engineers at 36 Great George Street just off Parliament Square in Westminster, continuing to install power plants and electric lighting. On 15 December 1898 he was elected an Associate of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, transferring to its class of Associate Members on 9 February the following year.
He died at 76 Westbourne Terrace in Paddington after a very short illness subsequent to an internal operation. The first part of his funeral was held at Christ Church Lancaster Gate. No grave monument survives, though he and his parents are commemorated by a window in the church's north transept.
Sources:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=5309293 - Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Volume 29, Issue 146, p 949
https://www.holytrinitysunningdale.co.uk/transforming-trinity/history12535/a-record-of-the-stained-glass/ - Holy Trinity Sunningdale - A record of the stained glass
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