George Nugent Reynolds Lambert
George Nugent Reynolds Lambert (1836-1890)
1891 Obituary [1]
GEORGE NUGENT RETNOLDS LAMBERT was born on the 9th of August, 1836. He received instruction in office work and drawing from Messrs. Leonard and Evans on Inland Navigation Works in Ireland during 1852 and 1853. He then served Some years in the Leitrim Militia, where he attained the rank of captain. In 1857 he was employed by Messrs. John Russell and Co. of Walsall and Wednesbury. Between 1862 and 1868 he was engaged under various engineers in surveys on railways and docks in England and Wales, and during this period he laid out and superintended the construction of about 20 miles of the Neath and Brecon and Swansea Vale Railways, from Parliamentary survey to completion
In 1868 he was sent out by the Secretary of State as 1st Grade Assistant Engineer in the Indian Public Works Department. He arrived in Bombay in the month of November, and was posted to Karachi in Sind.
On the 11th January 1869, he was transferred to the neighbouring district of Hyderabad, and there he passed the whole of his service until he was promoted to the important post of Superintending Engineer in Sind on the 24th of March, 1887. He continued to occupy this position up to the date of his death, which took place at Karachi, after a short illness, on the morning of the 13th of August, 1890. [more]