George Samuel Searight
George Samuel Searight (1859-1901)
1901 Obituary [1]
GEORGE SAMUEL SEARIGHT, son of Mr. Graves E. Searight, of Springfield, Shankill, CO. Dublin, was born on the 15th January, 1859.
He entered the School of Engineering, Dublin University, in 1877, and graduated in Ark in 1880, and in Engineering in 1882.
From February, 1883, to February, 1884, he was engaged as an Assistant Engineer on the Holt branch of the Eastern and Midlands Railway, and from May, 1884, to September, 1885, as Resident Engineer on the Killeshandra branch of the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland.
From August, 1886, to January, 1887, he was employed as Resident Engineer on the Clogher Valley Tramway and Light Railway, and in January and February of the latter year in preparing the Parliamentary plans and sections of the Kenmare and Headfort Light Railway, County Kerry.
In October, 1887, Mr. Searight, was engaged by the Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company as an Assistant Engineer, and held that appointment till the completion of the work in June, 1890.
On returning from India he was employed in preparing contract plans and sections of the West Kerry, Collooney and Claremorris, and Ards, Light Railways in Ireland, and under the Board of Public Works in Ireland as Resident Engineer on the construction of the Collooney and Claremorris Light Railway.
In 1894-95 he acted as Temporary Clerk in the office of the Irish Land Commission, and studied assaying at the laboratory of the Royal College of Science in Dublin.
In 1895 Mr. Searight went to South Africa, and was employed on the following works in the Transvaal:- Rand explorations, Landaus Transvaal Collieries, Pretoria-Pietersburg Railway, Central Lydenburg Goldfields, and Johannesburg Waterworks.
From March, 1899, to January, 1900, he was engaged for the Municipality of East London, Cape Colony, in the preparation of plans for the water-supply and sewage disposal of that town.
On the outbreak of the war, he returned to Ireland, where he obtained temporary employment, intending to go back to South Africa on the conclusion of peace. He was, however, unfortunately killed by a train while crossing the railway near Shankill Station on the 26th May, 1901.
Mr. Searight was elected an Associate Member of the Institution on the 7th February, 1888.