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Roger Smith, electrical engineer of the GWR
1863 Born in London
early 1890s: resident engineer at the Davies Street Power Station
1898 Joined Kennedy and Jenkin
1905 Appointed electrical engineer of the Great Western Railway for nearly 20 years
Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers; read paper on electrification of the Orleans Railway (1926)
1940 Died in London[1]
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