Druitt Halpin
Engineer of 9 Victoria Chambers, Westminster.[1]
Druitt Halpin (c1842-1922)
c.1842 Born at Cavan, Ireland, son of Charles Halpin, physician
1870 Assistant Locomotive Superintendent, Scinde, Punjab and Delhi Railway, based in Lahore.
1871 Became a member of I Mech E
1871 Became an Associate Member of Inst Civil Engineers
1879 Description of a new type of horizontal engine with automatic expansion gear, designed and patented by Druitt Halpin, of 7, Victoria-road, Charlton. '... an engine fitted with this gear in a somewhat modified form is being constructed by Messrs. Holborow and Co., of Stroud. Of this engine, which will be exhibited at the forthcoming show of the Royal Agricultural Society, at Kilburn, we shall have more to say. A compound engine on Mr. Halpin's plans is also in course of construction by Messrs. Manlove, Alliott, Fryer and Co., of Nottingham, ....'[2]
1880 Became a Member of Inst Civil Engineers
1881 Drewitt Halpin 40, mechanical engineer, lived in Hammersmith with Catharine G. Halpin 49[3]
1882 Halpins Patent Compound Condensing Engine. Constructed by Manlove, Alliott, Fryer and Co.[4]
1891 Druitt Halpin became a Member of Inst Electrical Engineers
1906 A widower, when he married Annie Susan Checkley in Ealing[5]
1922 Died in Gunnersbury[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1882/02/10
- ↑ Engineering 1879/06/06
- ↑ 1881 census
- ↑ The Engineer 1882/09/15
- ↑ Marriage register
- ↑ national probate calendar