Percy Macewan Otway
Percy Macewan Otway (1883-1958), Senior Diploma C.E., M.I.Mech.E., etc., Civil and Mechanical Engineer.
c1883 Born in Grenada, son of Thomas James Otway and Agnes Wilhelmina Otway
Educated at the Grammar School, St. George, Grenada, British West Indies;
1899-1902 At University College, Bristol, full course Civil Engineering, special final Senior Diploma.
1901 Student member of Inst Civil Engineers.
c.1905 Married Marion Beatrice Caville.
Articled pupil to E. S. Sinnott, M.Inst.C.E.
Resident Engineer for E. S. Sinnott, M.Inst.C.E., on light railways and road widening.
1904-17 A Member of the Civil Engineering Staff of Dick, Kerr and Co., Ltd., London, E.C.
- Resident Engineer-in-Charge for the Metropolitan Water Board at Walton-on-Thames, the Metallurgical Laboratory, etc., and Froude Experimental Tank.
- The main drainage of Surbiton, including sewage disposal works, mains and destructors. Extensions, suction and delivery culverts, economizer for the L.C.C. Southern outfall works, Crossness.
- The deep-water pier, sea defence works, at Shell Haven.
1911 Percy M Otway 27, civil engineer, public works contractor, lived in East Molesley with Marie B Otway 27, Dorothy W Otway 3, Arnold H Otway 24[1]
WWI: War Services - Supervising engineering on construction of aerodromes, engine repair depots and camps, roads, drainage, etc., for the Ministry of Munitions of War at Sheffield.
1917 Civil Engineer to the Sarawak Concessions of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd.
1917 Member of I Mech E
1922 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd., Sarawak Concessions, Miri Sarawak
1939 Percy Otway 56, Chartered civil, mechanical and structural engineer; supervising engineer on staff of divisional road engineer (London), lived in Guildford, with Marion B Otway 56, Dorothy W Otway, 32, Gordon M. Otway 26, mechanical engineer, graduate of I Mech E, employed by Dennis Brothers, Malcolm C Otway 17[2]
1958 Died[3]