Edwin Seddon
Edwin Seddon (1880-1946)
1946 Obituary [1]
EDWIN SEDDON was associated with the electrical side of mechanical engineering throughout his career. He was born in 1880, and received his technical education at the Ashton-under-Lyne Technical School and at the Manchester College of Technology. On the conclusion of a six years' apprenticeship with Messrs. Turner, Atherton and Company, of Denton, in 1901, he was for a brief period in the service of the Blackpool Corporation as junior engineer. Subsequently he acted as charge engineer to the West Ham Corporation, becoming assistant station superintendent in 1907, with promotion to the post of resident electrical superintendent three years later.
In 1912 he was appointed chief assistant electrical engineer to the Corporation of Edinburgh, and was appointed city electrical engineer and manager in 1924 which post he held until retirement in 1941 after thirty-nine years' service. Mr. Seddon, whose death occurred in June 1944, was elected a Member of the Institution in 1923. He was also a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and was a Past-President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts.