Robert Stodart Wyld, Junior
Robert Stodart Wyld, Junior (1855-1891)
1891 Obituary [1]
. . . . Having made choice of engineering as his profession, he served a pupilage of five years, from 1872 to lti77, under J. and A. Leslie, whose extensive practice gave him an early experience in many kinds of engineering operations. During this time he attended the engineering classes of the late Professor Fleeming Jenkin, and that of geology and mineralogy under Professor A. Geikie.
On the completion of his articles he was appointed by Messrs. Leslie as Resident Engineer at the waterworks then being constructed for supplying the town and district of New Cumnock. After some months he was transferred to Midlothian, and placed in charge of a section, 13 miles long, of the pipe-line conveying a new water supply to the City of Edinburgh from the Moorfoot Hills, with all the reservoirs, bridges, and other works connected with it.
At the beginning of 1879 he was appointed Resident Engineer on the Scarborough Harbour Improvement Works, which consisted of the deepening of two harbours, widening and extending a pier, under-building old quay-walls, and other operations.
This undertaking occupied him for two years, and in January, 1881, he returned to Scotland to superintend for Messrs. Leslie the construction of the Acreknowe Reservoir on the Hawick Waterworks.
A few months later, namely, in October, 1881, he was selected to take charge of an important section of the Vyrnwy Waterworks, of the Liverpool Corporation. . . . [more]