Julian Seymour Tritton
Born the son of Seymour Biscoe Tritton
1947 Bio Note.[1]
JULIAN SEYMOUR TRITTON, elected President for Session 1947-8 is the first instance of a son of a former President being elected to the office - Sir Seymour Biscoe Tritton, K.B.E., was President for Session 1926-7. He was born in Calcutta on 31st October, 1889, and was educated at Rugby School and King’s College, London, obtaining a diploma. His practical training was obtained at Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows, Willans & Robinson, Rugby, and Sir W. G. Armstrong-Whitworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He is a member of the Institutions of Civil and Mechanical Engineers.
After a short period on the Continental Inspection Staff of Rendel, Palmer & Tritton, Consulting Engineers of Westminster, he joined the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway as Assistant Loco. Superintendent Northern Division of that commissioned in the Royal of home service on special 1918-19 Afghan Campaign.
Joining the staff of Rendel, Palmer & Tritton in 1920, in which year he was elected a Member of the Institution, he became a partner in 1928, and was in charge of the firm’s Calcutta branch from 1929 to 1932. He returned to Headquarters in 1933 and soon became a very active Member of the Institution. He was elected a Member .of Council in 1934, in which year he read his Paper on “Railcars,” which gained for him the Frederick Harvey Trevithick Award. He was elected a Vice-President in 1944. In 1946 he was invited to deliver the Sir Seymour Biscoe Tritton Lecture, which he did on 10th April, entitles "Locomotive Limitations."
During the recent war he paid visits to America and Canada to act as Technical Adviser to the India Supply Mission in Washington in connection with the design of locomotives and rolling stock for the Indian Government Railways. He is a Member of many Committees of the British Standards Institution, and a Delegate to the Commonwealth and International Standardisation Conferences.