Edward Brough Taylor
Edward Brough Taylor (1856-1941)
1941 Obituary [1]
EDWARD BROUGH TAYLOR was born in Pimlico on the 4th August, 1856, and died at East Molesey, Surrey, on the 7th February, 1941.
He was educated at King’s College, London, and received his early engineering training as a pupil with Messrs. James Simpson & Company, of Grosvenor Road, Pimlico, and in the office of his father, Mr. John Taylor, M.Inst.C.E., by whom he was placed in charge of extensive works for the Bristol Waterworks Company.
In 1882 he was taken into partnership in the firm of Messrs. John Taylor and Sons, and on his father’s death, in 1891, he became senior partner, a position which he retained for 50 years.
In addition to his advisory activities for the Bristol Waterworks Company, he designed and carried out extensive works for the Colne Valley, Chatham, Aldershot, and Herne Bay Water Companies, all of which obtained their supplies from the chalk, of which formation he had made a close study, becoming a recognized authority upon it. He also advised numerous other water undertakings in England and Wales, and was frequently retained to give evidence before parliamentary committees. He was one of the principal witnesses in the prolonged arbitration proceedings in connexion with the formation of the Metropolitan Water Board.
For many years he advised the Shanghai Waterworks Company, especially in regard to its extensive pumping-plant, and also visited Newfoundland, Genoa, and Russia in connexion with the augmentation and purification of water-supplies. More recently he designed waterworks for the City of Karachi, India....[more]
1941 Obituary [2]