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Born 1874; educated Owens College, Manchester; Bishop Berkeley Fellow and Demonstrator in Whitworth Engineering Laboratory, 1894-1897; Draughtsman, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Manchester, and Assistant to Resident Engineers, Halifax and Wakefield, 1897-1901; Engineering Assistant, Derwent Valley Water Board, and Resident Engineer on Derwent Aqueduct, Cumberland, 1901-1909; Resident Engineer on Thirlmere Aqueduct (Third Pipe Line), Cumberland, 1909-1912; Professor of Civil Engineering, King's College London, 1912-1935; Fellow of King's College, 1924; External Examiner, Bristol University, 1920-1921, and London University, 1927 and 1930-1933; Dean of Engineering Faculty, University of London, 1932-1935; retired, 1935; Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, 1935; Honorary Secretary, 1947-1950, and Honorary Treasurer, 1946-1951, Worthing Branch, Overseas League; died 1952.
Publications: Advanced surveying: a text-book for students (Pitman and Sons, London, 1934); An introduction to fluid mechanics (Longmans and Co, London, 1937); Contour geometry, and its applications to earthwork design and quantities (Pitman and Sons, London, 1931); Mathematical geography (Pitman and Sons, London, 1927); paper on 'Testing the strength of materials' in Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers, [1917]; paper on 'Flow over sharp-edged weirs', in Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers, Nov 1948.