Frederick Beesley
Frederick Beesley (1836-1902)
1902 Obituary [1]
FREDERICK BEESLEY, born on the 4th April, 1836, commenced his professional career as an Assistant Engineer to the metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, having charge of the sewers in St. George’s, Hanover Square, District. He also devoted much time to the study of architecture, and when only 20 years of age was awarded the first premium for his design for the schools at Horn- church, Essex, which work he eventually carried out.
In 1860 he entered into partnership with the late [Edward Gotto| Mr. Edward Gotto]], an association which lasted for thirty years. Among some of the works carried out by the firm of Gotto and Beesley were the drainage of Rio de Janeiro, Seaford, Trowbridge, Evesham, Huyton and Roby, Redditch, Romford, Chatham, Horsham, Tiverton, Brentford and Cheshunt; and the drainage and water-supply of Campos (Brazil), Oswestry, East Cowes, Leominster, Cinderford, Aberdovey, Herne Bay and Alton.
On the expiration of this partnership in 1890, Mr. Frederick Beesley continued to practise alone until 1807, when his son, Mr. Walter Beesley, became his partner. The principal works designed and carried out by Messrs. Fredk. Beesley and Son were the sewerage and sewage disposal of Southwold, Porthcawl, Frinton-on-Sea, Pembroke, Pembroke Dock, Leatherhead, Ashtead, Ewell, Cobham, Holmfirth, Newmarket, Worcester, Walton-on-the-Naze, Rodbourne-Cheney, Burry Port, Hayes, Stratton, Whitland, Neyland, Chertsey and Colyton, and the water-supplies of Haverfordwest, Bland- ford, Salcombe. Llanidloes, Pembroke Dock and Burry Port.
In 1899 Messrs. Fredk. Beesley and Son entered into partnership with Mr. H. Bertram Nichols, of Birmingham, when the style of the firm became Beesley, Son and Nichols. The works executed by this firm and in progress comprise the sewerage and sewage disposal of Brownhills, Foleshill, Cowbridge, Morecambe, Manaos (Brazil), Baildon, St. Albans, Emsworth, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Saffron-Walden, Tredegar, Huntingdon, Windermere, Truro, Walmer, Kendal, Devizes, Saxmundham, Bury St. Edmunds, and the sewerage of the Western Valleys of Monmouthshire ; besides the water-supply of Bedworth, Braunton, Newtown, Honiton, Woodoote, Seaton, Kempston, Sturminster-Newton and Lynton. "I. Frederick Beesley retired from the firm at the end of 1900, but retained his appointment as Consulting Engineer to the Rio de Janeiro City Improvements Company. That post he held until his death, which occurred at his residence at Ealing on the 5th February, 1902, at the age of sixty-five.
He was elected a Member of the Institution on the 1st April, 1884.