Horatio Brothers
Civil Engineer, F.C.S. or F.G.S. (depending on reference)
1822 Born in Kensington, son of Francis Brothers RN.
1851 Horatio Brothers 28, engineer to the Grimsby Gas Co, was a joint occupier of a house in Great Grimsby with James Reed 30, agent to the Manchester and Lincolnshire Railway Company[1]
c.1867 Engineer of the new Croydon Commercial Gasworks
1881 Horatio Brothers 58, civil engineer, lived in Putney Hill, with Marianne Brothers 54, Francis Brothers 28, Rose Brothers 27, Kate A. Brothers 26, Florence Brothers 25, Helen R.M. Brothers 23, Marianne Brothers 21, Amy Madeline Brothers 18, Clara Beatrice Brothers 16[2]
1899 Died aged 77.[3]
1899 Obituary[4]
HORATIO BROTHERS died at his residence, The Elms, Putney Hill, on the 19th December, 1899, after a short attack of influenza. Born on the 30th November, 1822, he was a younger son of Lieutenant Francis Brothers, R.N. In 1844 he became an assistant to his brother, Mr. O. Brothers, then Engineer to the Blackburn Gasworks, and after obtaining further experience on various works of a similar kind in Lancashire, he was appointed in 1852 Engineer to the Salford Corporation Gasworks. That post he held until 1859, when he came to London to take up the office of Engineer to the Equitable Gas Light Company, which under his management became one of the most flourishing undertakings of the metropolis. On the amalgamation in 1871 of the Equitable with the Gas Light and Coke Company, Mr. Brothers remained, until his retirement in 1879, as Engineer in the service of the latter Company.
In addition to the appointments above mentioned, Mr. Brothers carried on, previous to his retirement, a large private practice as a consulting engineer. The Gasworks at Croydon, Bromley, Worthing, and other places, were erected under his superintendence, and he was frequently retained to give evidence before Parliamentary Committees. He was Chairman of the Bahia Gas Company up to the close of its concession in 1897, and at the time of his death was Chairman of the Gas Meter Company and of the Ceara Gas Company.
Mr. Brothers was elected a Member of the Institution on the 1st March, 1870.
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- ↑ 1851 census
- ↑ 1881 census
- ↑ The Engineer 1899/12/22, p625.
- ↑ Inst Civil Engineers obituary