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Latest revision as of 08:28, 23 August 2024
Captain Samuel Ingram ( -1929)
1929 Obituary [1]
Capt. SAMUEL INGRAM was a pupil in the Phoenix Engineering Works at Bilston from 1875 to 1877 and subsequently gained four years' additional experience in the Borough Engineer's office at Wolverhampton and the City Engineer's office at Liverpool.
From 1882 to 1886 he was engineer for Mr. Henry Lovatt on the construction of new lines for the Great Eastern and Great Northern Railways, and he continued to carry out railway construction work until 1893 on the Great Eastern and London and North Western Railways and the Bristol relief line of the Great Western Railway, the latter including a lattice girder bridge 800 feet long.
In 1893 he was appointed assistant surveyor to the Somerset County Council and in 1897 he became County Surveyor for the Devon County Council.
During the War he held a commission in the R.A.S.C. and from 1920 until 1924 he was in charge of army stores in Iraq.
Capt. Ingram died on 19th February 1929, at the age of 69, and he had been a Member of the Institution since 1903.