Edgar Whitaker Browne
Edgar Whitaker Browne (1885-1930)
1930 Obituary [1]
EDGAR WHITAKER BROWNE was for eleven years in the service of the New South Wales Government as chief electrical engineering assistant to the Consulting Engineer in London, in which capacity he carried out official tests on a great variety of electrical power plant.
He was apprenticed at the Uskside Iron Works at Newport, Mon., and attended evening classes at Newport, and later at the Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh.
After a short period as mechanical draughtsman with the South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company in 1906 he joined Messrs. Bruce, Peebles and Company of Edinburgh, with whom he remained until 1916.
He commenced in charge of a section of the drawing office, and after a period in the estimating department became assistant in the London office and finally branch manager, first at Birmingham and then at Manchester.
He was then employed for two years in the electrical department of the London and South Western Railway, and joined the New South Wales Government office after a further period of one year in the experimental department of Messrs. Rushmores.
Mr. Browne was born in April 1885 and died on 12th July 1930.
He became an Associate Member of the Institution in 1922.