Robert Henry Haynes

Robert Henry Haynes (1862-1910)

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1910 Obituary

'The death took place at Newport. Mon., on Saturday of Mr. Robert Henry Haynes. a member of the Institute of Engineers, who was the borough and waterworks engineer.
The son of the late Captain A. F. Haynes, formerly of Truro, Mr. Haynes was born at Newport in 1862. He was educated privately at Clifton, and he studied under the late Mr. Conyers Kirby, formerly borough engineer of Newport. He was appointed deputy borough engineer in 1883, and served the town in this position till 1883, when he was appointed borough engineer. Ten years later he became waterworks engineer. He had been associated with some important municipal works including the construction of the Kentwood waterworks and the transporter bridge over the river Usk, of which, with M. Arnodin, he was joint engineer. Mr. Haynes was an earnest student of the Continental town-planning system. He was a member of the South Wales institute of Engineers, the Association of Municipal and County Engineers, and the British Association of Water Engineers. He was also a prominent Freemason of the province of Monmouthshire.'

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1911 Obituary

ROBERT HENRY HAYNES, born on the 12th August, 1862, died on the 20th August, 1910, at Newport (Mon.), where the whole of his professional career had been passed.

Trained as a pupil, and afterwards as an assistant, to Mr. C. Kirby, the former Borough Engineer, he succeeded to that office in 1893 and held it until his death. During that period he carried out a number of important public works in Newport and the vicinity, and was joint engineer with Mr. F. Arnodin of the transporter-bridge over the Usk.

Mr. Haynes was elected a Member of The Institution on the 23rd April, 1907.

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