John Utting
John Utting (1862-1909)
1909 Obituary [1]
JOHN UTTING was born at Stratford, London, on 1st August 1862.
His education was received at a private school and the Mechanics' Institute, Stratford, and in 1878 he began his apprenticeship in the Stratford Works of the Great Eastern Railway.
On its termination in 1883 he went as third engineer on the S.S. "Malabar" of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and served in that capacity for about a year.
From 1886 to 1890 he was employed at Woolwich Arsenal, principally on experimental and inspection duty, and then he was engaged in superintending the erection of hydro-pneumatic gun-mountings at Aden, and subsequently as inspector of guns.
In December 1898 he returned to England on government duty, and in the following year was appointed assistant engineer at the Bombay Gun-Carriage Factory, of which he was promoted to be chief mechanical engineer in 1902.
He was sent to England on duty in March 1906, and returned to India in September of the same year, when he was appointed chief mechanical engineer of the Gun-Carriage Factory at Jubbulpore.
His death took place at St. George's Hospital, Bombay, following a slight operation after a trying railway journey, on 4th January 1909, in his forty-seventh year.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1905.