Walter Raleigh Parker (c1848-1897)
Civil engineer who worked on a number of projects in South Wales including the Severn Tunnel and the Taff Vale Railway
1897 Died. 'Information has been received in Cardiff of the death in Bristol of Mr W. R. Parker, formerly a member of the Cardiff Town Council. Mr Packer was a contractor who received his early training with Messrs T. A. Walker and Company, who constructed the Severn Tunnel and the Prince of Wales Dock at Swansea, and carried out other great undertakings. As joint contractor with the late Mr Geen, of Newport, Mr Parker laid the Rhondda Valley sewerage, with its outfall at Cardiff. It was a big and costly undertaking, from which unfortunately Mr Parker did not emerge financially scathless. Latterly Mr Parker had superintended for Messrs Burnes, Chapman, and Co. the extension of a pier at Bristol. He succumbed to a long illness at Bristol on Thursday morning.'[1]
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- ↑ South Wales Daily News - Friday 31 December 1897