Philip William Wall
Peter William Wall (1824-1904)
1905 Obituary [1]
PHILIP WILLIAM WALL died on the 29th August, 1904, in his eighty-first year. After completing his studies at King’s College, London, he served a pupilage under E. Slaughter, and was subsequently engaged for several years on the Manchester and Sheffield, Huddersfield and Manchester, and other railway works.
In 1856 he proceeded to India at the request of the Madras Government to report on a coal-formation on the Upper Godavari River, and four years later he went again to that country as Resident Engineer on the Calcutta and South Eastern Railway. Subsequently he was appointed Chief Engineer of the line, which was completed and opened under his direction.
After his return to England, on the completion of those works, he acted for a time as the engineering representative in this country of the Municipality of Calcutta.
Between 1873 and 1876 he was occupied on railway construction in Sweden. For many years previous to his death, however, Mr. Wall had not engaged in the active pursuit of the profession.
He had made a special study of the science of geology and was a Fellow of the Geological Society.
Mr. Wall was elected a Member of the Institution on the 2nd May, 1865.