Charles Hamlet Cooper
Charles Hamlet Cooper
1922 J.P., M.Inst.C.E., F.R.San.I., Consulting Engineer of the Borough of Wimbledon, Coopers Hill, Carlow. s. of Rev. Robert Cooper. Ed. Kingstown School, etc. Associate in Engineering, Royal College of Science for Ireland. Pupil of the late William Humber. Engaged on Birmingham main drainage, bridge design and construction; nearly ten years Assistant Engineer, and thirty years Engineer to the town of Wimbledon. Chief Works: Reconstruction and extension of the main drainage, Wimbledon; reconstruction of sewage works, new settling tanks; improvement of road surfaces; construction of isolation hospital for 75 beds; bridge street works; laying out 6o acres of recreation grounds, depots, etc. Among his designs are the following, many of which have been patented: "A Card Index Pocket Book," 1903; "Lubrication of Internal Combustion Engines," 1914, "A System of Road Directions Signs." Publ.: Papers on "Chalk Water," " Sewage Treatment," "Street Work," "Burial of the Dead," "Card Index Applied to Municipal Work," etc., and the question of sunshine in connection with the dwelling in the Proceedings of the Royal Sanitary Institution, the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers. Member of the Lower Thames Valley Surveyors' Association and the Authors' Club. War Services.—Carried out main drainage and constructed the roads for the camp, Wimbledon Common; organized and superintended the arrangements for dealing with air raids in the Borough of Wimbledon. Member of the Committee having charge of the Wimbledon Detachment of the Red Cross, of which detachment he was Quartermaster for some years.