Wilfred Bertram Thorpe
1875 Born in Devon, son of William George Thorpe, barrister; brother of Jocelyn Field Thorpe
1882-1891 At school
4 years apprenticeship at Vauxhall Iron Works
1.5 years at Crompton and Co, Chelmsford.
1896 of 20 Larkhall Rise, Clapham, London
c.1896 Engineer with Charing Cross and Strand Electricity Supply Corporation
1901 Associate member of Inst Mech Engineers
1905 Associate member Inst Electrical Engineers
1911 Living with his mother in Battersea, an electrical engineer working for the Charing Cross Co.[1]
1913 An electrical engineer when he married Edith Lovell Phillips in Hampstead[2]
1920 Engineer in chief of the Charing Cross, West End and City Electricity Supply Co. Became a Member of Inst Elec. Eng. and of the Inst Mech Engineers.
1939 Retired Electrical Engineer lived in Guildford with Edith Thorpe 60[3]
1958 died in Guildford[4]