Percy John Sheldon

Percy John Sheldon (c1858-1931), County Surveyor of Essex

1902 January. County Surveyor for Essex and his car.

1931 Died. 'The death occurred at North Parade, Southwold, Tuesday morning, of Mr. Percy John Sheldon, who was for 32 years the County Surveyor of Essex, which appointment he resigned in Sept. 1922. It is given to comparatively few men to be concerned in the direction of an important branch of county administration for such a long period, and it might fairly be said that Mr. Sheldon's outstanding professional work laid the foundations of the present efficient state of the county highways. For some years after his retirement his services were retained by the County Council in a consultative capacity; he was succeeded as County Surveyor by Major W. H. Morgan, D.S.O., who was Mr. Sheldon's deputy for some years. Mr. Sheldon, like many other County Surveyors in the South of England, hailed from the North....His first public office was as borough surveyor of Congleton, and later on he became borough engineer of Burslem. It was in 1889 a year after Essex decided to be the first county to have its own surveyor that he was elected from a large number of candidates to succeed the late Mr. Henry Stock as county surveyor of Essex. About this time too he was elected a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. From that time until his resignation years later he was responsible for 800 miles of roads, for the repair of which some 60,000 tons of granite, flints, etc., were used annually.'

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