William Walton Williams
William Walton Williams (1846-1918)
1918 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM WALTON WILLIAMS was born in London on 11th April 1846.
He was educated at Kensington Grammar School, at Cannstatt, and Zurich, and was then apprenticed for three years to Richard Moreland and Sons, London, after which he remained two years with the firm as improver.
From 1871 to 1876 he acted for Handyside and Co., as engineer on the construction of markets in Madrid, and then was appointed contractor and engineer in charge of the erection of the pier at Nice.
His next work was at the Rio Tinto Copper Mines, Spain, and in 1887 he was engaged as engineer for Messrs. Lysaght to superintend the erection of the ironwork for the Buenos Ayres central markets, then the largest in the world.
Various appointments in Central America, Lagos, and Spain followed until 1899 when he acted again for Messrs. Lysaght on the iron and steel construction of the Gibraltar Harbour Works.
On the completion of this work in 1906 he became engineer and manager of the Guadiana Railway and Mines in Huelva, Spain, and in 1911 acted as resident engineer for the extensions and improvements to the Antwerp Water Works.
In the following year he was placed in charge of the completion of the erection of a viaduct over the City of San Paulo, and on his return to England a serious illness supervened.
In August 1915 he was engaged in the Trade Department of the War Office Postal Censorship, which position he held until his death which took place in London on 27th September 1918, at the age of seventy-two.
He was elected a Member of this Institution in 1889. He was a frequent contributor to the technical press from 1870 onwards.