Bradford Leslie (1860-1936)
Lieut-Col Sir Bradford Leslie (c1860-1936)
son of Bradford Leslie
1936 Obituary [1]
Railway and civil engineers will learn with regret of the death, at the age of seventy years, of Lieut. -Col. Sir Bradford Leslie, at Auckland, New Zealand, on Wednesday, February 5th. He was the only son of the late Sir Bradford Leslie, the great builder of bridges, and after leaving Marlborough went to India, and served with his father on the construction of the Jubilee Bridge over the Hooghly at Naihati.
A few years later he was appointed to the Bengal Nagpur Railway and was associated with the construction of some of the larger bridges on that line. Later he became deputy agent and chief engineer to Sir Trevredyn Wynne.
When he returned from India he worked for some years under Sir John Wolfe Barry as a consulting engineer in Westminster and specialised in the design of locomotives and rolling stock for India.
For some time before the war he held an important position with Vickers, Ltd., and travelled widely in the interests of that firm. He obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1917 and did valuable work in France, where he remained for some time after the war on salvage and disposal work. After a short time with the Ministry of Transport he was chosen to succeed Sir Francis Spring as chairman and chief engineer of the Madras Harbour Board.