Charles Fitzwilliam White (1857-1904)
Charles Fitzwilliam White (1857-1904)
1857 Born in India
1871 At school in Warrington[1]
1882 Son of Charles Fitzwilliam White, married Charles Louisa Catharine Galloway in Calcutta[2]
1904 Died in Warwick.
1904 Obituary [3]
CHARLES FITZWILLIAM WHITE was born in Calcutta on 29th May 1857, and was educated at the Grammar School at Warrington.
In 1876 he was apprenticed to the North Eastern Railway Co. at their works in Gateshead, and on its termination in 1880 he was appointed assistant locomotive superintendent on the Indus Valley State Railway.
In 1883 he was transferred as district locomotive superintendent to the Cawnpore Acheneva Railway; and in the following year he was re-transferred to the Indus Valley State Railway, which in 1886 was amalgamated with other lines and designated the North Western Railway.
He continued in the position of district locomotive superintendent at Lahore up to the time of his death, which took place at Warwick on 18th August 1904, at the age of forty-seven.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1904.
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- ↑ 1871 census
- ↑ India, Select Marriages, 1792-1948
- ↑ 1904 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries