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PRITCHARD, EDWARD (1839 - 1900), civil engineer, of Selly Oak, Birmingham;

Name: Edward Pritchard
Date of birth: 1839
Date of death: 1900
Gender: Male
Occupation: civil engineer
Area of activity: Engineering, Construction, Naval Architecture and Surveying
Author: Elwyn Evans

Born at Wrexham in September 1839. He began his career as borough surveyor of Clitheroe and was afterwards at Bedford and Warwick. He later went into private practice and was responsible for the building of waterworks, sewerage, and tramways in over 100 towns in Great Britain. He visited Constantinople to report on sewerage works and was engaged in similar duties at Cape Town and in a number of other South African municipalities. He was also a mining engineer and was engaged in the development of gold mining in Silesia under the Austro-Hungarian Government, and also by a syndicate working in British Columbia. He died 11 May 1900.

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Published date: 1959

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