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Walter Moberly (engineer)	However, Sandford Fleming, Chief Engineer of the railway project, asked Moberly to relocate his crews north to the Yellowhead Pass for the 1872 season.
Henry Hoy	In 1872 he began an apprentice ship under Francis William Webb at the London and North Western Railway's Crewe works.
Albert Ernest Kitson	After Nigeria, Kitson continued his explorations in Africa, along with Edmund Thiele, working particularly in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) between 1913 -- 30 where he was first Principal of the Mineral Survey and afterwards Director of the Geological Survey.
Arthur Oliver Wheeler	In 1884 he sub-divided a number of Canadian Pacific Railway townsites along the line of railway construction.
Theophilus Danjuma	COMET Shipping Agencies Nigeria Ltd COMET Shipping Agencies Nigeria Limited was established in 1984 by Danjuma, primarily to act as an agent for Nigeria American Line (NAL).
William Merrill Whitman	Whitman began his long relationship (ending in 1972) with the Panama Canal the following year when he was admitted to the Panama Canal Zone Bar and began undertaking legal work for the Panama Railway, the Panama Canal Company, and the government of the Panama Canal Zone.
Thomas McDonnell	He returned to Auckland in 1862, and was appointed interpreter to the resident magistrate at Thames, panning for gold on the side.
Henry Corry Rowley Becher	In 1857 he became a director of the Great Western Railway in what became the province of Ontario.
Quintin McKinnon	In 1888 the Otago Survey Department again employed McKinnon, this time with Ernest Mitchell.
Hector Neil McLarty	As part of the Federation of Australia the WA Customs service was amalgamated with similar services in the other States to form the Australian Customs Service, Hector remained with the ACS until he retired on 30 June 1911.
John Petrie	Closely associated with the Enoggera Dam while it was planned by the council, he later saw it constructed as a member of the Board of Water Works ; as its chairman in 1875 he was a leader in implementing the Gold Creek Dam and planning of the Mount Crosby Weir.
James Macdonald (engineer)	Macdonald had spent seven years in service in India and was in Bombay in 1891 ready to embark for England on leave when he was offered the job of Chief Engineer of'' the proposed railway survey from Mombasa to the Victoria Nyanza''.
Joseph Armstrong (engineer)	In 1864, Gooch resigned the post of Superintendent of Locomotive Engines, and Armstrong was promoted to replace him ; in addition to Gooch's locomotive duties, Armstrong was also made responsible for carriages and wagons, which was reflected in his new job title, that of Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent.
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme	In 1887, Lever looking to expand his business, bought of land on the Wirral in Cheshire between the River Mersey and the railway line at Bebington.
Dugald Drummond	In April 1890 he tendered his resignation to enter business, establishing the Australasian Locomotive Engine Works at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
George Parker Bidder	In 1837 he was engaged with R. Stephenson in building the Blackwall railway, and it was he who designed the peculiar method of disconnecting a carriage at each station while the rest of the train went on without stopping, which was employed in the early days of that line when it was worked by means of a cable.
James Crowe Richmond	He was apprenticed to the engineer Samuel Clegg and from 1845 served on the staff of Isambard Kingdom Brunel for three years working on the Great Western Railway in southern England.
Richard D. Cotter	After Cotter completed the mapping in Yosemite late 1864, he signed up to work on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia and Alaska, with the goal of providing a telegraph link from Asia through Alaska by way of Bering Strait.
Lindesay Clark	In 1922, he went to work with his father, who was then a consulting engineer for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, which was developing the Yallourn coal deposits for electricity generation, under the leadership of Sir John Monash.
George Brooke Roberts	Roberts oversaw the construction of bridges and other engineering work, including the Connecting Railway Bridge over Schuylkill River in Philadelphia (attributed to John A. Wilson, 1866 -- 67) that connected PRR's southern and northern lines.
William Snell Chauncy	His work appears to have involved crown land surveys, including Belvoir itself, and other towns and parishes In 1861 he supervised the erection of the first road bridge over the Murray River between Wodonga and Albury, New South Wales.
Nelson J. Beach	In 1855, he resigned this post, and accepted the appointment as Resident Engineer on the Eastern Division of the New York State Canals, remaining on the canal work for two years.
William Kelly Wallace	Although primarily a civil engineer, he was appointed to the joint positions of Locomotive Engineer and Civil Engineer on the NCC in 1922 when Bowman Malcolm retired.
John C. Climie	Returning to Tasmania, he was appointed engineer to the Zeehan Town Board for a term of three years in August 1898, and continued his engineering practice for the local mines and tramways, living in Zeehan.
William Henry McNeill	In 1837, the company was concerned that a site be found to replace Fort Vancouver in case they were ever driven out of that area, and directed McNeill aboard the Beaver to explore for a suitable location for the operations of the company with a safe harbour and land suitable for cultivation.
Joe Keeper	shtml Following the war, he returned to Winnipeg, where he worked as a carpenter, before moving back to the northern part of the province, where he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company until he retired in 1951.
Francis Godschall Johnson	In 1854, Johnson was commissioned by the Hudson's Bay Company to work as a legal administrator in Assiniboia.
Edmund Wragge	In 1866 Wragge went into practice on his own account for three years, during which time he was resident engineer on the works of the Waterloo & Whitehall Railway.
Harry McDame	In addition to McDame Creek, also named for him was McDame, originally known as McDame Post or McDame's Creek Post, which was sold to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1875 and has also been known as Fort McDame.
Guglielmo Marconi	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | St. John's, Newfoundland, December 1901 At the turn of the 20th century, Marconi began investigating the means to signal completely across the Atlantic, in order to compete with the transatlantic telegraph cable s. Marconi established a wireless transmitting station at Marconi House, Rosslare Strand, Co.
Charles Hesterman Merz	He was a consultant to a local tramway company on the electrification of their horse-drawn routes and, subsequently, to the Tyneside local lines of the North Eastern Railway, a pioneer of British mainline railway electrification, whose electric systems were turned on in 1904.
Thomas Brassey	In 1844 Brassey and Locke began building the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway of, which was considered to be one of their greatest lines.
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross	In 1884, Cross was elected to the Board of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, and he remained a Director of that company, and of its successor the Great Central Railway (GCR), until his death.
Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth	In 1848 he went to Manchester to serve as chief artist to Faulkner Bros., a firm of lithographer s who were busy with railway plans during the Railway Mania.
Francis Jones Barnard	In 1874 Barnard won the government contract to build the Edmonton to Cache Creek section of the new transcontinental telegraph line (all telegraph communications between BC and the outside world had until then gone through the United States).
Robert Vaughn (Montana)	In 1890, the North Western Coal and Navigation Company constructed the Great Falls & Canada Railway, a narrow gauge railway () which ran from Sweet Grass, Montana (at the Canadian border) to a teminus adjacent to the Vaughn ranch.
David Laird	In 1874, Laird paved the way for the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Dominion Telegraph by negotiating the Qu'Appelle Lakes Treaty with local First Nations groups in southern Saskatchewan, to procure land for the railway and telegraph lines.
Charles Dempster	In 1864, he and his brother became the first European explorers to reach the Esperance district, and they opened up a stock route to the markets at Perth.
G. H. Gibson	He became inspector of crown land agents' offices on 20 August 1896, and in his official capacity travelled widely throughout New South Wales.
Abid Sharifov	In 1991, Sharifov worked as the deputy chief of construction company electrifying Çerkezköy - Kapıkule railway.
John McIntyre (politician)	McIntyre came to Australia after reports of significant gold discoveries and in 1852 he arrived at Portland, Victoria aboard the Runnymede.
John Yonge Akerman	In early life he became secretary to William Cobbett ; in 1838 to the London and Greenwich Railway Company ; and later to Lord Albert Conyngham (afterwards Lord Londesborough).
Arthur Keith	He travelled to Siam on a gold mining trip in 1889 where he gathered plants for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London in his capacity as a plant collector assistant for the Botanical Survey of the Malay Peninsula.
Robert Stephenson	In 1824, a year before the Stockton and Darlington line opened, Robert went off to South America for three years, to work as an engineer in the Colombian gold mines.
John Carter (New Zealand politician)	He retired as New Zealand's High Commissioner to the Cook Islands in July 2013 to return to the Far North of New Zealand, successfully running for Mayor of the Far North in October 2013.
Edward Watkin	Watkin began to show an interest in railways and at in 1845 he took on the secretaryship of the Trent Valley Railway, which was sold the following year to the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), for # 438,000.
Alexander S. Johnson	In 1864, he was appointed United States Commissioner for the settlement of the claims of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound Companies under the Oregon Treaty, Great Britain being represented by Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet.
John Foster McCreight	At the time of McCreight's arrival in Victoria in 1860, it was the capital of the Colony of Vancouver Island, which at the time was governed by the powerful and autocratic Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, Sir James Douglas.
Robert Tooth	In 1852 with John Edye, James Alexander and (Sir) William Montagu Manning, Mort, J. Croft and Edwin, Robert formed the Twofold Bay Pastoral Association which acquired some 400,000 acres (161,876 ha) on the south coast and Monaro ; Kameruka was the head station.
Charles Anthony Corbett Wilson	In 1860 he undertook took several large Government survey contracts in the Western district, including Chatsworth, Grassdale and Murndal, Montajup and Dunkeld, and Mount William.
George Heald	By 1839 he was a qualified civil engineer and made a presentation to the Institution of Civil Engineers in London about the Land Surveyors Calculator.
Everard Calthrop	Tev joined the army and became a Colonel in the Royal Engineers, while Keith, after a stint in the Royal Engineers went on to become Assistant General Manager and Mechanical Engineer of the Barsi Light Railway, a post he held until 1932.
Charles Smith Wilkinson	In 1875 Wilkinson was transferred to the mines department with the title of geological surveyor in charge.
Edward Giles Stone	Three years later, in 1900, he joined the newly formed Sydney Harbour Trust as Chief Design Engineer.
Thomas Higinbotham	Afterwards Sir Wm. Cubitt, who was advising engineer to the Great Northern Railway Company, had him appointed as resident engineer of that railway He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 7 February 1854.
George Buchanan (engineer born 1865)	Buchanan first came to prominence in 1905 when he collaborated with Patrick Meik on designs for the Rangoon River training works in Burma ; Meik was consulting engineer and Buchanan was chief engineer.
Edgar Dewdney	In 1865, Dewdney was appointed by Governor Frederick Seymour to oversee the construction of a trail to the East Kootenay region of the British Columbia Interior so that coastal merchants might benefit from the burgeoning trade associated with gold mining in that area but also to secure line of communication with the region to prevent an American takeover of that part of the province.
Sandford Fleming	By 1871, the strategy of a railway connection was being used to bring British Columbia into federation and Fleming was offered the chief engineer post on the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet	Fowler initially established a practice as a consulting engineer in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire area, but, a heavy workload led him to move to London in 1844.
Dugald Drummond	In 1875 he was appointed locomotive superintendent of the North British Railway.
George Parker Bidder	In 1834 Robert Stephenson, whose acquaintance he had made in Edinburgh, offered him an appointment on the London & Birmingham Railway, and in the succeeding year or two he began to assist George Stephenson in his parliamentary work, which at that time included schemes for railways between London and Brighton and between Manchester and Rugby via the Potteries.
Charles Fox (civil and railway engineer)	London and Birmingham Railway In 1837 Robert Stephenson appointed him as one of the engineers on the London and Birmingham Railway, where he was responsible for Watford tunnel and the incline down from Camden Town to Euston.
Thomas Brassey	In 1852 Brassey took out the largest contract of his career, which was to build the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.
Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne	In September 1933, Moyne purchased the passenger ferry SS Dieppe from the Southern Railway.
Gavan McDonell	McDonell has directed, as Sole Commissioner, three Commissions of Enquiry into major public controversies : Appointed in 1971 by the Administrator of the Northern Territory to enquire into large shipping delays, port requirements and transport needs for Territory development, McDonell's recommendations resulted in redirection of port investment and port operations, a masterplan and highways linking with adjoining States.
William Snell Chauncy	However, he completed surveying the Adelaide to Port Adelaide Railway line and in 1851 surveyed a road for the Central Board of Main Roads from Hahndorf, South Australia to Wellington Ferry on the Murray River, which although officially named the South Eastern Road, is generally known as Chauncys Line.
George Law (financier)	Impressd by the returns from the short amount of line of William Henry Aspinwall's Panama Railway, he acquired a large interest in the project in 1852.
Stephen H. Wendover	In 1867 he served on the committee of commerce and navigation as it investigated complaints about the ferry companies operating in the East River and North River of New York City.
Hiram Blanchard	In 1860, Blanchard moved to Halifax and became engaged in a partnership with Jonathan McCully, then Solicitor General and railway commissioner in the government of Joseph Howe.
Robert Absalom Thom	From 1 January 1934 Thom's duties expanded when his post was combined with that of Mechanical Engineer, Stratford, becoming Mechanical Engineer for the Southern Area of the LNER.
Robert Gillespie Reid	In 1893, he signed a contract with the government of Newfoundland, and as president of the Reid Newfoundland Company he built the railway from Whitbourne to Port aux Basques.
Peter Cheal	In the 1880s Cheal returned to Thames where he was appointed in charge of the local Survey Office, and in 1886 he moved to Auckland where he established a private practice as a mining engineer and surveyor.
William H. Hardy	He later became General Counsel for the company, although his legacy with that railroad centers on two things in particular : Hardy's engineering work to construct the bridge spanning Lake Ponchartrain and his efforts to secure funding once the road went into receivership during the economic Panic of 1873.
George Washington Cass	Cass joined the future Northern Pacific Railway as a director in 1867, four years before the company laid its first rail near Carlton, Minnesota.
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet	From 1837 he worked for John Urpeth Rastrick on railway projects including the London and Brighton Railway and the unbuilt West Cumberland and Furness Railway.
Bertram Kelly	thumb | left | Bertram Kelly when he was appointed as the first Borough Electrical Engineer Bertram Kelly returned to the Isle of Man in 1920, where he was appointed chief assistant engineer to the Manx Electric Railway.
Edgar Speyer	In November 1912, Speyer further consolidated the UERL's control of London's underground railways when he negotiated the purchase of London's two other main tube railways, the City and South London Railway and the Central London Railway.
Norman Kittson	Following the creation of the new Canadian province of Manitoba, in 1872 Kittson joined up with another former competitor, James Jerome Hill, forming the Red River Transportation Company.
George Armstrong (engineer)	In 1840 George and Joseph went to Hull as engineers on the Hull and Selby Railway, then subsequently followed John Gray to Brighton Works on the London and Brighton.
Robert Gillespie Reid	In 1898, he further contracted to work all the railways in Newfoundland for fifty years on condition that at the end of this time they should become his property.
William Henry Fancourt Mitchell	On 21 March 1842, he resigned his appointment and in April they sailed for Port Phillip where he acquired Barfold station near Kyneton and a property in Mount Macedon districts becoming a large proprietor.
Lawrence Wells	Wells grew up in the Mount Gambier, South Australia district, and after a short stint in a merchants office, joined the South Australian Survey Department in October 1878.
Roland Bond	In 1948, on the formation of the Railway Executive, Bond was appointed chief officer (Locomotive Construction and Maintenance), reporting to Riddles, who was now'' Member of the Railway Executive for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering''.
Edward John Cotton	He was appointed Traffic Manager of the Belfast and Ballymena Railway (B&BR) in 1857.
Lawrence Wells	In 1896 Albert Calvert, a London mining engineer, proposed through his Adelaide Agent, A. T. Magarey, to finance an expedition to complete the task of the Elder Expedition, again supervised by the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.
Khama III	In 1895, with two other chiefs from neighboring tribes, Khama traveled to Britain to lobby Victoria of the United Kingdom for protection from the dual pressures of Cecil Rhodes' British South African Company -- located in what was later to become Rhodesia to the north -- and the Afrikaner settlers creeping up from the south.
Theophilus Danjuma	He retired from the Nigerian army in 1979 Nigeria America Line (NAL) Formed in 1979 by General TY Danjuma (Rtd), Nigeria American Line (NAL) began business and initially leased a ship called' Hannatu' which traded between Lagos and Santos in Brazil when Nigeria's bilateral trade agreement had opened the sea routes to economies in the South American markets.
Michael John O'Brien	He arrived in Renfrew, Ontario in 1879 when he and two partners won the contract to build the Kingston and Pembroke Railway.
Tommy Garnett	In 1984 Garnett contributed to the government's project to rejuvenate Victoria's country botanic gardens, and in the early 1990s successfully advocated the establishment of an independent board for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.
Francis Jones Barnard	This proved to be disastrous, as the government's plans were ill-conceived, changing the route twice, and Barnard was forced to sit on a large investment in steamboats, packtrains, supplies, wire and other supplies until 1874, when a new government (that of A. C. Elliott) cancelled the contract altogether, as its predecessor had commissioned the clearing of a right-of-way for telegraph and railway before even confirming the route.
William Wall (Australian politician)	In May 1911 he held Lease PL No. 232 adjoining the Traelman Gold mining Company at Ivy Paddock near Mudgee and was also investigating the setting-up of a' hill-side' furnace on the Dunedoo rail line, near Mudgee.
Herbert Ashcombe Walker	After a frustrating year of indecision on the part of the Southern Railway's Board he was appointed General Manager there in 1923, where he encouraged the electrification programme.
Jairo Clopatofsky	In 2012 he assumed the role as head of the newly opened Colombian Consulate in Vancouver, Canada.
Francis Fry	He took a part in the introduction of railways in the west of England, and was a member of the board of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, which held its first sitting 11 July 1839, retaining his position during various amalgamations of the line until its union with the Midland Railway.
Edward W. Serrell	He was the assistant engineer of the 1848 Panama Survey, where he located the route of the railroad between Aspinwall and Panama.
Charlie Hughes	In 1998, Hughes was appointed to the advisory committee of Gold Line's TEF division.
Henri Victor Regnault	These were published in 1847, and led to his receiving the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society of London and appointment as Chief Engineer of Mines.
Guillermo Gaviria Correa	In this capacity, he oversaw the improvement and repair of Colombian roads and bridges until 1999.
James Moore (engineer)	Moore died in Lismore, New South Wales in 1887 of diabetes aged 61, having been resident at the country property Jesswoolgan, near Alstonville, New South Wales for some time, and was referred to as for many years civil engineer of the Railway Department in Sydney.
John Chester Craven	In December 1847 he took up his principal post as Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway following the dismissal of John Gray.