Walter Osmond Rooper (1858-1948), M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E., Consulting Engineer, of W. O. Rooper and Tozer, Rooper and Harris, W. O. Rooper and Robins
1858 Born in Uppingham[1]
1876-8 Apprentice at Crewe Works
1878-80 Draughtsman under Mr F. W. Webb at Crewe
1880-1 Worked for Mr Brotherhood
1881 A mechanical engineer, living with his brother Maximilian in London[2]
1882-4 Studied at University College
1883-4 outside manager for A. H. Bateman and Co
1884 Started in business at Stafford as general/electrical engineer
1884 Published a student's paper on emery wheels and emery wheel machinery[3]
1885 Associate member of Inst Civil engineers
Managing Director Rooper and Harris Ltd., emery wheel and artl. grindstone makers, later the Universal Grinding Co., Ltd.
c.1890 of Stafford. His company started making a safety device for large emery wheels, which was used in many large works[4]
1891 Correspondence, authored with others, on use of electric machinery in mining[5]
1896 Member of Inst Elec Engineers
1899 dissolution of the Partnership between Walter Osmond Rooper and Alban George Robins, carrying on business as Electrical Engineers, at Victoria-road,Stafford in the county of Stafford, and Newgate-street, Chester, in the county of Chester, under the style or firm of Messrs. W. O. Rooper and Robins. Walter Osmond Rooper continued to trade from the same premises.[6]
1903 Member Inst Civil Engineers
1910 Started to practice as consulting engineer; carried out electrical installations in Portsmouth Dockyard, National Gallery, etc.
1910 Dissolution of the Partnership between Walter Osmond Rooper and John Cecil Grant McFerran, carrying on business as Electrical and Consulting Engineers, at 26, Victoria-street, in the city of Westminster, and at Stafford, in the county of Stafford[7]
1911 Walter Osmond Rooper 52, mechanical engineer, managing director, Sandycroft Foundry, lived in Mold, with Augusta Caroline Rooper 43, Veronica Wootten Rooper 22, Alan Walter Rooper 9[8]
1939 Consulting engineer, of Winchester[9]
1948 Died in Winchester[10]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1911 census
- ↑ 1881 census
- ↑ Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
- ↑ The Engineer 1898/11/18
- ↑ Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
- ↑ London Gazette 10 Nov, 1899
- ↑ London Gazette 10 June 1910
- ↑ 1911 census
- ↑ 1939 register
- ↑ National Probate calendar
- Civil engineer records
- Electrical engineer records