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George Tyndall (1822-1904).
Son of Samuel Wilkinson Tyndall.
Obituary 1904[1]
"...engineering circles in France. Born in 1822, son of the late Samuel Wilkinson Tyndull, of Strandville, Clontarf, County Dublin, he commenced his early studies at Leicester under Mr. Woodhouse (Midland Railway). In 1840 he went over to France as assistant civil engineer to Messrs. Brassey and McKenzie, who were amongst the earliest English contractors for the construction of the great railways in France. In the first part of Mr. Tyndall's career there he was connected with the construction of the line to Bordeaux, and later on he became for a short time assistant engineer to the Chemin de Fer d'Orleans, when he was offered by an English company, and accepted, the entire control and supervision of the construction of the Chemin de F er de la Yendee. On the sale of this line to the French he..."More.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1904/02/05, p141.