Octavus Deacon Clark
Octavus Deacon Clark (1833-1894)
1894 Obituary [1]
OCTAVUS DEACON CLARK was born in London on the 23rd of October, 1833.
From 1852 to 1855 he served a pupilage to John Beard Carruthers, civil engineer, London, who expressed entire satisfaction of his strict attention and business-like habits during that period.
In May, 1856, he was appointed an Assistant Engineer on the Madras Railway and for the next two years was occupied in surveying and in staking out portions of that line. Disappointed at not obtaining permanent charge of a district of which he had had temporary control, he resigned the Company's service in 1858, and from April to October of that year was engaged on the staff of the contractors for the Bombay Waterworks.
In October, 1858, Mr. Clark was appointed an Assistant Engineer on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, in the service of which Company he remained for nearly fourteen years. For the first twelve months he was engaged in selecting the course of the line through the jungle and hilly district of Asurgarh, and from then until the commencement of 1869 he had charge of 20 miles of construction.
From January, 1869, to June, 1870, he was in charge of 40 miles of construction carried out departmentally, and from the latter date he was Resident Engineer of a district of 100 miles. Among the works he assisted in carrying out during that period may be mentioned the Nerbudda Viaduct, consisting of five spans of 150 feet each, with six land arches of 40 feet each, and the locomotive shops and sheds at Jubbulpur.
In 1872 Mr. Clark was appointed Deputy Executive Engineer to the Municipality of Bombay, under Rienzi Walton....[more]