John Newbigging
John Newbigging (1861-1902)
1902 Obituary [1]
JOHN NEWBIGGING was born in Glasgow on 26th August 1861.
He received his scholastic education in George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and his technical education at Anderson's College, Glasgow.
He served his apprenticeship from 1878 to 1883 with the London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Co., Glasgow and Govan, in the fitting shop and drawing-office. On its completion, he remained with the firm for a year as a draughtsman.
He was then appointed engineer on one of the steamers of the Union Co. of Japan, and with this company he remained until 1886, when he passed the qualifying examination for the Board of Trade certificate.
In 1887 he became engineer on one of the Hall Line steamers of Liverpool.
From 1888 to 1890 he was draughtsman with Messrs. David Rollo and Sons, engineers, of Liverpool, preparing working drawings, and having charge of the erection of engines and boilers on several large steamers.
In 1891 he was appointed an assistant engineer in the office of Mr. Spencer Harty, City Surveyor and Waterworks Engineer of Dublin, being two years in the Waterworks Department. From this he was transferred to the Main Drainage Department in 1892, where he assisted in the preparation of the contract drawings for the new drainage scheme for Dublin, and on the commencement of the outdoor works he was in charge of the construction of several tunnels with complicated curves.
After an illness of several months' duration, his death took place at Roundwood, County Wicklow, on 19th October 1902, at the age of forty-one.
He became an Associate Member of this Institution in 1902.