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'''1947 Obituary <ref>[[1947 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries]]</ref> | '''1947 Obituary <ref>[[1947 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries]]</ref> | ||
"HECTOR BENTON HAMPSON was educated at Wellington College and at Worcester College, Oxford. In 1913 he began a course of study at the City and Guilds Engineering College, South Kensington, which, however, was interrupted a year later by the war of 1914-18. After serving overseas for five years in the Dublin Fusiliers and the machine-gun corps and rising to the rank of lieutenant, he resumed his studies at the College, and obtained the Associateship in 1922. On the conclusion of a two years' apprenticeship with [[Thornycroft|Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft and Company, Ltd]]., at Southampton, he remained with that firm as a draughtsman in the engine department for a further four years. In 1929 he joined the staff of [[Kennedy and Donkin|Messrs. Kennedy and Donkin]], consulting engineers to the Central Electricity Board, for whom he was engaged at irregular intervals as an inspecting engineer until 1939. Subsequently he obtained a post as engineering assistant at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Warrington. Mr. Hampson, whose death in his fifty-sixth year occurred on 20th November 1946, was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1926." | "HECTOR BENTON HAMPSON was educated at Wellington College and at Worcester College, Oxford. In 1913 he began a course of study at the City and Guilds Engineering College, South Kensington, which, however, was interrupted a year later by the war of 1914-18. After serving overseas for five years in the Dublin Fusiliers and the machine-gun corps and rising to the rank of lieutenant, he resumed his studies at the College, and obtained the Associateship in 1922. On the conclusion of a two years' apprenticeship with [[Thornycroft|Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft and Company, Ltd]]., at Southampton, he remained with that firm as a draughtsman in the engine department for a further four years. In 1929 he joined the staff of [[Kennedy and Donkin|Messrs. Kennedy and Donkin]], consulting engineers to the Central Electricity Board, for whom he was engaged at irregular intervals as an inspecting engineer until 1939. Subsequently he obtained a post as engineering assistant at the [[Royal Ordnance|Royal Ordnance Factory, Warrington]]. Mr. Hampson, whose death in his fifty-sixth year occurred on 20th November 1946, was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1926." | ||
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Hector Benton Hampson (c1890-1946)
1947 Obituary [1]
"HECTOR BENTON HAMPSON was educated at Wellington College and at Worcester College, Oxford. In 1913 he began a course of study at the City and Guilds Engineering College, South Kensington, which, however, was interrupted a year later by the war of 1914-18. After serving overseas for five years in the Dublin Fusiliers and the machine-gun corps and rising to the rank of lieutenant, he resumed his studies at the College, and obtained the Associateship in 1922. On the conclusion of a two years' apprenticeship with Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft and Company, Ltd., at Southampton, he remained with that firm as a draughtsman in the engine department for a further four years. In 1929 he joined the staff of Messrs. Kennedy and Donkin, consulting engineers to the Central Electricity Board, for whom he was engaged at irregular intervals as an inspecting engineer until 1939. Subsequently he obtained a post as engineering assistant at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Warrington. Mr. Hampson, whose death in his fifty-sixth year occurred on 20th November 1946, was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1926."