John Edward Touche

John Edward Touche (1855-1938)

1911 Living at 2 Prince Arthur Road, Hampstead, London: John Edward Touche (age 55 born Edinburgh), Consulting Engineer and Managing Director, Steel Works. With his wife Sarah Minns.

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1938 Obituary

JOHN EDWARD TOUCHE was for twenty-five years managing director of the Otis Steel Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, residing in London and travelling to the United States twice a year. He was born in Edinburgh in 1855 and served his apprenticeship from 1870 to 1875 in Messrs. Hawthorn's engineering works at Leith. After a year's experience in the drawing office of Messrs. Dubs and Company, at the Glasgow Locomotive Works, he joined Messrs. Ransomes, Head and Jefferies, afterwards Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, of Ipswich, and was employed as a draughtsman and engineer until 1881.

He then went, as a representative of the firm, to their New Zealand agents, Messrs. George Booth and Sons, of Christchurch, and a year later he became a draughtsman in the Government Survey Office at New Plymouth. From 1885 to 1888 he worked in the office of the engineer for existing lines, New South Wales Railways, first as draughtsman, and later as assistant engineer, after which he returned to New Zealand and became works manager to Messrs. Booth, Macdonald and Company, at the Carlyle Implement and Iron Works, Christchurch.

In 1892 he returned to England and shortly afterwards visited the United States, and joined the board of directors of the Otis Steel Company. In 1894 he went into business on his own account, in Westminster, but also continued his work for the Otis Steel Company. In later life he returned to Edinburgh, and took a great interest in the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, of which he was a Vice-President. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His death occurred in Edinburgh, in his eighty-fourth year, on 9th June 1938.

He had been a Member of the Institution since 1894.

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