William Arthur Gawthorne
William Arthur Gawthorne (1868-1916)
1916 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM ARTHUR GAWTHORNE was born at Kirkee, India, on 10th November 1868.
He was educated at the Cathedral High School from 1877 to 1884, and then began an apprenticeship at the dockyard of the P. and O. S. N. Co., at Mazagon, Bombay.
On its completion five years later he went to sea as Fourth Engineer with the British India Steam Navigation Co., and resigned in 1890 after receiving the Certificate for 2nd class Engineer.
In the following year he became First Engineer, and joined the Irrawaddy Flotilla Co., Burma, as Second Engineer, subsequently being promoted to Chief Engineer.
In 1894 he was appointed Engineer to the Madura Mills Co., and two years later became Manager and Chief Engineer to the Kohinoor Mills Co., Ltd., Dadar, India. In this capacity he superintended the building and erection of the mills and the installation of the engines and boilers.
On the completion of the work he remained with the firm of Killick, Nixon and Co. for nineteen years.
His death took place in London on 4th August 1916, in his forty-eighth year.
He was elected an Associate Member of this Institution in 1901, and was transferred to full Membership in 1909.