George Ellwood
George Ellwood (1885-1939)
1939 Obituary [1]
"GEORGE ELLWOOD was born in Manchester in 1885 and received his general education there between 1891 and 1899. Between 1900 and 1910 he attended evening classes at Openshaw Technical School and the Manchester School of Technology. He served his apprenticeship in the drawing office of Messrs. Beyer, Peacock and Company, Ltd., Manchester, from 1901 until 1906, in which year he became plant draughtsman to this company. From 1911 to 1913 he held the post of draughtsman with Messrs. Mather and Platt, Ltd., Manchester, and he then spent a year as a plant engineer in Pittsburg, U.S.A. During the Great War he served in France with the Canadian Army, and in 1919 he was appointed plant engineer to the Abitibi Power and Paper Company, Ltd., Iroquois Falls, Ontario. In 1920 he became assistant head superintendent in this company and he held this post until he joined the staff of the Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Company, Ltd., as assistant engineer in 1925. He occupied this position in Rio de Janeiro until his death, which occurred there on 24th May 1939. He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1931."
1939 Obituary.[2]
George Ellwood, elected Associate Member in 1925, was born in 1885. He received his early education at Ardwick Higher Grade School and his technical training at the Manchester School of Technology.
He commenced his apprenticeship as a draughtsman with Beyer, Peacock & Co., Ltd., in 1899, and migrated to the United States in 1911. In 1919 he went to Canada as a plant draughtsman and, later on, to Brazil. In 1921 he was appointed Assistant to the Locomotive Superintendent on the Leopoldina Railway at Rio de Janeiro and, in 1924, was appointed to sole charge of the Railway Workshops in the interior of Brazil. In August, 1925, he left the Railway Company to become an Assistant Engineer in charge of the Engineering Department Office of the Eagle Oil & Shipping Co. Ltd., at Rio de Janeiro, which post he held up to the time of his decease. He died in the Strangers’ Hospital at Rio on the 24th May, 1939, at the age of 53.