Stanley Stirling Begbie
Stanley Stirling Begbie (1878-1918)
1918 Obituary [1]
STANLEY STIRLING BEGBIE was born at Cape Town On 18th August 1878.
After being educated at schools in Port Alfred and Grahamstown he was apprenticed in 1893 to his father's firm, Thomas Begbie and Co., Ltd., general engineers, of Johannesburg.
On its completion six years later, he became assistant engineer at Ohlssen's Cape Breweries, Cape Town, for nineteen months, and then went to England and thence to Canada.
In August 1902 he returned to South Africa and became a partner in his father's firm, having sole charge of all the mechanical construction contracts.
Four years later he took up the appointment of resident mechanical engineer to the Edendale Estates and Silver Mines, Ltd., near Hatherley, Transvaal.
In 1908 he went to Rhodesia to become engineer of the Milky Way Co., Gatooma, and later acted in the same capacity at mines belonging to Willoughby's Consolidated Co., Ltd., Bulawayo.
In October 1917 he went up to the Zambesi Sawmills, N. Rhodesia, to supervise the erection of boilers and electrical plant, and while there contracted blackwater fever from which he died on 25th March 1918, in his fortieth year.
He was elected an Associate Member of this Institution in 190G.