Charles Henry Walker Biggs

Charles Henry Walker Biggs (1845–1923), technical journalist and journal editor

1845 Born Charles Henry Biggs on 23 May 1845 in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire.

In his early working life Biggs was a schoolmaster and tutor in Reading.

1869 Married Susan Wiltshire, born 1848 in Hanbury, Warwickshire.

1870 Communicated a paper to the British Association for the Advancement of Science entitled "Middle-class schools as they are, and as they ought to be"

1876 he communicated another paper to the BA "On a new voltaic battery".

1878 Became editor of the newly revived periodical The Electrician; asked the Institution of Electrical Engineers for access to papers which were to be read before it. Elected as a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers

1882 Accepted an article by Oliver Heaviside, the first of a regular series. Went on to champion Heaviside's cause; guided him to avoid libelling William Preece.

1887 Biggs relinquished editorship of The Electrician

1888 he became editor and co-owner of a new periodical, the Electrical Engineer.

1890s Biggs contributed several papers (with others) to the BA and wrote several books on electrical engineering and one on mechanical engineering.

Took out numerous patents, including on secondary batteries and on sanitary pipe joints.

Biggs also set up as a printer and publisher of technical works, Biggs and Co., with offices in Fleet Street.

1923 Died at home in Southwark

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• Biography, ODNB