Henry Edmunds Haddon
Henry Edmunds Haddon (1852-1900)
1901 Obituary [1]
HENRY EDMUNDS HADDON, born on the 15th August, 1852, obtained his preliminary engineering training at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill.
After a practical course at Avonmouth New Docks he was appointed in 1876 an Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department of the Government of India. His first employment was on survey work in the Ghat Division of the Nagpur and Chhattisgarh State Railway.
In May, 1877, he was transferred to construction work on the Indus Valley State Railway, and from August, 1878, to November, 1881, he was employed on the construction of 36 miles of the Nagpur and Chhattisgarh Railway, on the completion of which he was appointed Superintendent of Way and Works of the 94 miles of line then open for traffic.
In May, 1882, he was posted to the Northern Bengal State Railway as Deputy Superintendent of Way and Works, and in the autumn of the following year he was engaged on the survey and construction of an extension of the Damokdia branch of the Eastern Bengal State Railway.
In January, 1884, Mr. Haddon was transferred to the Rajputana-Malwa Railway, on which he remained, in charge of various divisions, until his retirement from the Public Works Department in 1898. During that period he was engaged on several important works, including the remodelling of the narrow-gauge terminus at Delhi, and the construction of a new line to Lahore Gate, Delhi, and of a new road and bridges for the Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway.
Mr. Haddon died at Paignton, South Devon, on the 7th December, 1900, in the forty-ninth year of his age.
He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution on the 4th February, 1879, and was transferred to the class of Members on the 21st February, 1893.