Andrew Augustine Greaven
Andrew Augustine Greaven (1857-1918)
1919 Obituary [1]
ANDREW AUGUSTINE GREAVEN was born in 1857, and was educated at the University School, Dublin.
He served an Apprenticeship of three years in the locomotive works of the Midland Great Western Railway, Dublin, and then became manager of the Upper Cross Woollen Mills, Co., Dublin, the property of his father.
In 1884 he went to South America and was employed in the locomotive department of the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway during its construction and subsequently during its operation.
In 1889 he entered the locomotive works of the Great Southern Railway of Buenos Aires, and in the following rear was appointed works manager, which position he held until shortly before his death.
During the War he was principally occupied in the Requisition Section of the Works, and it fell to him to supply demands for materials, and in this work he rendered an appreciable service.
His death took place at Buenos Aires on 29th November 1918, at the age of sixty-one.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1900. ---