A. P. I. Cotterell
Albert Player Isaac Cotterell (1862-1951). M.Inst.C.E., M.Cons.E., M.Inst.W.E., of A. P. I. Cotterell and Son
c.1862 Born in Bath
1911 Albert Player Isaac Cotterell 49, civil engineer, lived in Bristol with Annie Maria Cotterell 49, Olive Mary Cotterell 21, Phyllis Cotterell 20, Gilbert Thorp Cotterell 19, engineering student, Joyce Cotterell 17, Godfrey Sturge Cotterell 14, Albert Player Cotterell 11[1]
President I.San.E.
Gold Medallist of Institute of Sanitary Engineers, for services to Sanitary Engineering.
1939 London engineer.
1952 Obituary[2]
ALBERT PLAYER ISAAC COTTERELL who died on the 16th December, 1951, at the age of 89, was born on the 26th December, 1861. He was educated at Sidcot School, Somerset, Olivers Mount School, Scarborough, and Bristol University College.
In 1878, he was articled. to the late Mr F. Ashmead, who was then City Engineer of Bristol, and after the latter’s death, 2 years later, he completed his training under the late Mr Francis Fox, and as assistant to the late Mr S. W. Jenkins of Liskeard. During those years he was engaged on railway extensions in Devon and Cornwall, including the laying out of the Helston railway and the design of the Cober viaduct, Redruth sewerage, Newquay water supply, and other works. In 1885 he set up in private practice as a consulting engineer in Bristol, but in 1908 he opened an office in London which became his headquarters after the 1914-18 war, the Bristol office being retained as a branch. While in practice in Bristol, he held official appointments as Surveyor to the Horfield and Barton Regis Urban District Councils, and the Chipping Sodbury Rural District Council.
He practised as a consultant, specializing in water supply and sewerage works, for 52 years and by the time he retired in 1937 he had been responsible for installations at Poole, Minehead, Bristol, Glastonbury, and elsewhere. Mr Cotterell had many interests in addition to his practice. He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in April 1887, and transferred to the class of Member in December 1903. He was also a Past-President of the Institution of Sanitary Engineers , a Fellow of the Royal Sanitary Institute, a Member of the Institution of Water Engineers, and a Member of the Institution of Municipal Engineers; and was at one time a member of the Bristol Corporation.