Alfred Stewart Betts
Alfred Stewart Betts, telegraph superintendent.
1842 Born in Brompton, London, son of Alexander Stewart Betts, merchant
c.1860 War Office Telegraphist at Woolwich Arsenal
By 1877 he was Superintendent of the Persian Gulf Cable.[1]
Later at Karachi.
1887 of Clapham Common, member of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians
1891 Alfred I Betts 48, retired on pension, assistant secretary to engineering company, lived in Clapham with Frances M Betts 42, Catherine F Betts 21, Eleanor A Betts 15, Stewart A Betts 15, Reginald A Betts 4[2]
1901 Alfred S. Betts 58, Retired superintendent of telegraphs, B. W. C. S. (?) of India, lived in Brighton with Catherine F Betts 31 and Reginald A Betts 14[3]
1921 Died in Clapham[4]