Gerald Maitland Heriot
Gerald Maitland Heriot (1868-1900)
1901 Obituary [1]
GERALD MAITLAND HERIOT, son of the late Mr. F. L. Maitland Heriot, of Ramornie, Fife, was born on the 28th October, 1868.
After serving a pupilage with Messrs. Boothby and Watson, and subsequently with Mr. Crawford Barlow, he joined, in 1890, the staff of Mr. Joseph Kincaid (now Messrs. Kincaid, Waller and Manville), under whom he was employed as Resident Engineer on the construction of the South Yorkshire Junction Railway, and on Parliamentary work in connection with railways and tramways.
In 1895 Mr. Heriot went to India, and was engaged on the Assam-Bengal Railway and also on railway work in Travancore, where he died from cholera on the 2nd November, 1900.
Mr. Heriot was a well-known golfer and at the time of his death held the amateur championship of India.
He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution on the 4th December, 1894.