Christopher Howell McCarthy-Jones
Christopher Howell McCarthy-Jones (1876-1929)
1929 Obituary [1]
CHRISTOPHER HOWEL MCCARTHY-JONES died in Bombay on the 3rd August 1929, where he was resident as managing director of the Indian Radio Telegraph Company.
He was essentially an electrical engineer and served his apprenticeship with the Electric Construction Company of Wolverhampton.
Later he became assistant engineer on the reconstruction of the City and South London Electric Railway.
After designing and carrying out an extensive hydro-electric power scheme for the Lake Copais Company of London and Greece, he went to Calcutta to take charge for five years of the Indian Branch of the British Thomson-Houston Company.
On his return to this country, he acted as London export manager.
In 1919 he became consulting electrical engineer for the Burmah Oil Company's important scheme for oilfields electrification.
On its successful completion he joined the Indian Radio Telegraphs Company.
He was born in 1876, and became an Associate Member of the Institution in 1908 and a Member in 1919.