Gerald Whitehouse Higgs-Walker
Gerald Whitehouse Higgs-Walker (1894-1951)
1953 Obituary [1]
GERALD WHITEHOUSE HIGGS-WALKER, B.A., was in the service of the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., during almost the whole of his professional career, including his apprenticeship, which he served from 1920 to 1922.
He was born in 1894 and educated at Repton and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Mechanical Engineering Tripos.
After two years' experience as research assistant to the Aircraft Manufacturing Company, Ltd., London, he began his long connexion with the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company as a turbine engineer. From 1924 to 1931 he was section leader in charge of the design of marine turbines and, since 1931, had been entrusted with the design of governor and control gear for all the steam turbines manufactured by the company.
Mr. Higgs-Walker was elected a Graduate of the Institution in 1923 and transferred to Associate Membership two years later. He was awarded the Thomas Lowe Gray Prize for his paper on "Problems Connected with Steam Turbine Governors", which he presented in 1941. He was also an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
His death occurred on 5th September 1951.