Walter Pringle Proudfoot

Walter Pringle Proudfoot ( -1942)

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1942 Obituary.

The death occurred at Earlsferry on Thursday, of a well-known consulting civil engineer. Mr W. P. Proudfoot, The Elms, Kirkcaldy. A native of Leuchars, Mr Proudfoot became associated many years ago with Mr C. E. Bruce, civil engineer, Cupar and Kirkcaldy, and for many years carried on the firm of Messrs Bruce and Proudfoot. Practising in Fife for forty years, Mr Proudfoot was an acknowledged authority on such schemes as water supplies, and drainage works, and these he undertook successfully both in the county and beyond it. He was a member of both panels of civil engineers appointed by the Home Office in connection with Reservoir (Safety Provisions) Act, 1930, where his advice was highly respected, and he was engaged by many firms, and also by the Burgh Leven, in connection with Fife Provisional Order, 1940. During the twenty-five years in which he was engineer to the River Leven Trustees, Mr Proudfoot carried out many improvements the river from Loch Leven to the estuary on the Firth of Forth. He is survived by his widow, three daughters and one son, who is a captain in the R.A.S.C.

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