Edgar Walford Marchant

Professor Edgar Walford Marchant (1876-1962) of Liverpool University
1876 Born
Educated at the Central Technical College
Apprenticeship
Appointed Superintendent of Lord Blythswood's Laboratories and Workshops at Renfrew, N.B., including experiments in wireless telegraphy.
Senior assistant to Professor Silvanus P. Thompson
1901 was appointed Lecturer in Electrical Engineering in the University of Liverpool
1903 Appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering in the University of Liverpool.
1913-4 Chairman of the Manchester Local Section of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
President of the Liverpool Engineering Society
Vice-President of the Wireless Society of London.