Arthur Watson Stonebridge
Arthur Watson Stonebridge (1878-1949)
1949 Obituary [1]
1950 Obituary [2]
"ARTHUR WATSON STONEBRIDGE spent over twenty years of his professional career in India, where he was concerned with water and sanitary engineering. He was educated at private schools in Cambridge and Norwich, and obtained his practical training with the Portland Urban District Council during 1899 and 1900. After gaining experience on the staff of the Norwich Electric Works and as assistant engineer to the East Ham Urban District Council, he joined Messrs. Bergtheil and Young, London, electrical engineers, as a draughtsman and assistant engineer.
In 1916 he proceeded to India to take up an appointment as special engineer of waterworks and drainage to the Government in Hyderabad, in whose service he remained until 1921, when he became resident engineer and subsequently chief engineer to the Tansa Completion Works for the water supply of Bombay, one of the largest undertakings of its kind in the world. From 1927 until 1938 he had been in private practice as a consulting engineer in Bombay, and was consulting engineer to the Muslim University, Aligarh. Mr. Stonebridge had been a Member of the Institution for nearly fifty years, having been elected a graduate in 1900, and transferred to Associate Membership in 1904. In addition, he was a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Societe d'Ingenieurs Civils de France, and founder member of the Structural Engineers. His death occurred at Ross-on-Wye, on 20th November 1949, in his seventy-first year."