Henry Maw
Henry Maw (1872-1913)
son of William Henry Maw
1913 Obituary [1]
HENRY MAW was born in London on 6th September 1872, being the son of Dr. William H. Maw, Past-President.
He received his education, first at a private school, and subsequently at St. Paul's School, West Kensington, from September 1884 to May 1890.
From then until November 1892 he served his time in the workshops of the Great Eastern Railway at Stratford, under Mr. James Holden, after which he studied engineering for two years at University College, London, under Professor T. Hudson Beare.
During the succeeding fifteen months be was engaged in various engineering work under his father, and in October 1895 he entered the office of Professor (now Sir) Alexander B. W. Kennedy, where be was engaged in the drawing office and in testing electric lighting plant, etc.
During 1898 he was chiefly employed in superintending the extensions to the Croydon Corporation Electric Light Station, and in January 1899 he was appointed resident engineer in charge of the laying of mains and installation of plant for the electric lighting of the City of York, while from April 1900 to May 1901 he occupied a similar position at Darlington, both these schemes being carried out under Sir Alexander Kennedy.
Returning to London he next became resident engineer in charge of the erection of plant at Grove Road Central Electric Supply Station and the laying of mains in connection therewith, while subsequently he was engaged on the electrification of a portion of the Great Western Railway, also under Sir Alexander Kennedy.
In January 1908 he joined the firm of B. R. Rowland and Co., of the Climax Works, Reddish, and became a director, a position which he resigned in March 1910 to join his father on the staff of Engineering.
His death took place at Willesden Green, London, on 7th April 1913, in his forty-first year.
He was elected a Graduate of this Institution in 1897, and an Associate Member in 1899.