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Druitt Halpin

From Graces Guide
1882. Compound condensing engine, Halpin's patent.

Engineer of 9 Victoria Chambers, Westminster.[1]

Druitt Halpin (c1842-1922)

c.1842 Born at Cavan, Ireland, son of Charles Halpin, physician

1870 Assistant Locomotive Superintendent, Scinde, Punjab and Delhi Railway, based in Lahore.

1871 Became a member of I Mech E

1871 Became an Associate Member of Inst Civil Engineers

1880 Became a Member of Inst Civil Engineers

1881 Drewitt Halpin 40, mechanical engineer, lived in Hammersmith with Catharine G. Halpin 49[2]

1882 Halpins Patent Compound Condensing Engine. Constructed by Manlove, Alliott, Fryer and Co.[3]

1891 Druitt Halpin became a Member of Inst Electrical Engineers

1906 A widower, when he married Annie Susan Checkley in Ealing[4]

1922 Died in Gunnersbury[5]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1882/02/10
  2. 1881 census
  3. The Engineer 1882/09/15
  4. Marriage register
  5. national probate calendar