Frank Douglas
Frank Douglas (1867-1904)
1904 Obituary [1]
FRANK DOUGLAS was born in Hackney, London, on 5th March 1867.
He was educated at Croydon High School and at the College de Marine, Dieppe, and received his technical education, in conjunction with his apprenticeship, at the College of Science and Art, Glasgow.
In 1884 he was apprenticed for five years to Messrs. Robert Napier and Sons, of Glasgow, and on its termination was employed by Mr. I. A. Timmis, of Westminster, on the installation of electric lighting and electric brakes on the railways in Russia.
In 1891 he went to sea as a marine engineer in the employ of Messrs. Lamport and Holt and the Eastern Telegraph Co. until 1897, when he obtained the chief engineer's certificate of the Board of Trade.
In 1898 he was appointed resident engineer to the East Anglian Ice Co., at Lowestoft, superintending the erection of the whole of the plant and buildings; and then became consulting engineer to the Ramsgate Pure Ice Co., and refrigerating engineer to Messrs. R. A. Lister and Co., and also managing engineer to the London and Provincial Ice Co.
In 1903 he was offered the position of engineer and general manager in Africa of the North American and African Cold Storage Co., and proceeded to Delagoa Bay to erect the first store in that country.
His death took place from an aneurism, while on the voyage home from South Africa, on 18th April 1904, at the age of thirty-seven.
He became an Associate Member of this Institution in 1903.