Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,136 pages of information and 250,321 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Leslie Roseveare

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Major Leslie Roseveare (1876- )

1922 Major, O.B.E., M.Inst.C.E., Borough Engr., Eastbourne; b. 1876; s. of Edwin Roseveare, J.P. Ed. Wycliffe Coll. App. and Asst. to Edward Sandeman, M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., Engr., Plymouth Waterworks; Asst. Water Engr. of Torquay; 1898—General Asst., and 1902, Drainage Asst. to Borough Engr. and Surveyor, Plymouth; 1904—Asst. Engr., Special Works Dept., Birmingham; 1907—Chief Asst. Engr. to City of Birmingham; 1900—Borough Engr. and Surveyor, South Shields; 1916-19; Deputy Asst. Director of Roads in 1st Corps, B.E.F., France; awarded Military O.B.E.; Borough Engr., Eastbourne, 1920. Address: Borough Engr., Eastbourne.

1939 O.B.E. (Military), M. Inst. C. E Past.-Pres., Inst. Mun. and Cy. Engrs.; Past-Pres., Town Planning Institute; Borough Engr., County Borough of Eastbourne. Career: Wycliffe Coll.; Pupil, Edward Sandeman, M.Inst.C.E.; Asst. Engr., Plymouth; Chief Asst. Engr., Birmingham; Borough Engr., S. Shields.

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