Charles Edwin Crighton
Charles Edwin Crighton (1840-1912)
1868 Birth at Newcastle-upon-Tyne of son Charles Crighton
1870 Birth at Newcastle-upon-Tyne of son Alexander Clifford Crighton
1872 Birth at Newcastle-upon-Tyne of son George Edwin Crighton who died 1915 at Bulawayo
1873 Birth at Lanteglos of son Arthur Vivian Crighton
1874 Birth at Newcastle-upon-Tyne of daughter Florence Ostle
1877 Birth at Liskeard of son William Percy Crighton
1879 Birth at Newcastle-upon-Tyne of son Hugh Ostle Crighton
1912 Obituary [1]
CHARLES EDWIN CRIGHTON, born on the 6th July, 1840, died at Hove, Sussex, on the 1st February, 1912.
He served his pupilage with Messrs. Robert Stephenson and Company, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and subsequently went to India as Resident Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent on the Great Southern Railway of India, a post which he held until 1867.
In 1880 he was appointed Locomotive and Carriage Superintendent, the name of the system being changed to the South Indian Railway.
He retired in 1903.
Mr. Crighton was elected a Member of The Institution on the 6th March, 1888.