Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,099 pages of information and 246,739 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Patrick Joseph Corbett

From Graces Guide

Patrick Joseph Corbett (1870-1904)


1905 Obituary [1]

PATRICK JOSEPH CORBETT was born in Ireland on the 18th March, 1870.

After completing his professional studies at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, he received an appointment in the Bombay Public Works Department, and proceeded to India in 1892 to take up his duties as an Assistant Engineer.

For several years Mr. Corbett was occupied chiefly on irrigation works at Surat, Satara, Karachi and other places.

In 1897 he was placed in charge of famine-relief works, and during 1898 and the following year acted as Executive Engineer and Conservator in the Indus River District.

In 1902 he came home on furlough, and on his return to India in the following year he reverted to the substantive appointment of Executive Engineer on the Karachi Canals.

In 1904 Mr. Corbett was appointed Under Secretary to Government in the Public Works Department at Bombay, but a few months afterwards he contracted enteric fever and died in that city on the 20th September, 1904, aged 33.

He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution on the 14th April, 1896.


See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information