Douglas D'Arcy Wilberforce Veitch
Douglas D'Arcy Wilberforce Veitch (1846-1883)
1883 Obituary [1]
"MR. DOUGLAS D’ARCY WILBERFORCE VEITCH, the youngest son of the Rev. W. D. Veitch, was born in Jerusalem in 1846, where his father at that time was head of a missionary college. He studied with the intention of entering the Royal Artillery, but was prevented from carrying out this wish by the state of his health, which was so delicate as a child that he could not be sent to school. He attended the Applied Sciences Department of King’s College, London, from October 1864 to Christmas 1866 ; and in the month of May 1867 became a pupil, for three years, of Mr. W. Clarke, M. Inst. C.E. He was then engaged upon the Whitchurch and Tattenhall Railway, as an Assistant Engineer, during the construction of the works, and afterwards had charge of a section of the Bristol and North Somerset Railway . His health subsequently broke down completely, and he eventually died from long-standing heart disease, at Eliock House, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, on the 18th of March, 1883. Mr. Veitch was one of the original Students of the Institution, having been admitted to the class on its formation in November 1867. He was elected an Associate on the 7th of February, 1871, and became an Associate Member on the establishment of that class."