Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,675 pages of information and 247,074 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.

Richard Willsher Weekes

From Graces Guide

Richard Willshire Weekes (c1901- ) A.C.G.I., M.Inst.C.E. M.Cons.E.

c1901 Born the son of Robert Willsher Weekes

1911 Living at 50 Hayes Road, Bromley, Kent: Robert Willsher Weekes (age 44 born Tunbridge Wells), Consulting Electrical Engineer. With his wife Helen Christina Weekes (age 45 born MacDuff) and their three children; Joycelyn Willsher Weekes (age 13 born Chardlow); Richard Willsher Weekes (age 10 born Chardlow); and Alan Willsher Weekes (age 5 born Bromley). Also his BIL John Brown (age 49 born Banff), Gold Mining Engineer.[1]

Educated at Haileybury; City and Guilds;

1922-27 Eng. Asst. to David Balfour and Son, Newcastle-on-Tyne

1927-31 Export Engr. for Adams Hydraulics and Broom and Wade (Canada, Brazil, Argentine, Chili and Peru)

1931- Consulting Engr. in partnership with Mr. M. G. Weekes in M. G. and R. W. Weekes, Chartered Civil Engineers., 75 Victoria Street, Westminster.

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Sources of Information

  1. 1911 Census