Nicholas George Gedye
Nicholas George Gedye (1874-1947)
1922 O.B.E. (M.Div.), B.Sc. (B'ham), M.Inst.C.E., Officer of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, Chief Civil Engr. for Docks, Harbours and Inland Waterways, Ministry of Transport; b. 1874; s. of late Joseph Gedye. Ed. Bristol Grammar School and University of Birmingham. Eng. School and Prizeman. Pupil with, and afterwards Chief Asst. to late W. T. Douglass, M.Inst.C.E.; 1910-15— Chief Engr., Tyne Improvement Commission; 1915-17—Supt. Engr., M. of M.; March, 1917-Nov., 1918— Served on Staff of D.G.T., B.E.F., France; engaged on Port Construction Work, etc., under Sir Alexander Gibb, G.B.E., C.B.; Major R. E., 1917; Lt.-Col. R.E., 1918— Mentioned in Dispatches; 1918-19—Served on Staff of Civil Engr.-in-Chief (Admiralty), as Asst. Director of Special Construction, and later Acting Director, in charge of Belgian Ports Reconstruction, etc.; since Oct., 1920, as above. Joint Author with W. T. Douglass, of Article "Lighthouses, etc.," in "Encyclopaedia Britannica." Club: St. Stephen's. Address: 5, Victoria Street, London, S.W.1; and Ministry of Transport, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.I.
1947 Obituary [1]
"...Nicholas Gedye was born at Bristol in 1874, and was educated at Bristol Grammar School and at the University of Birmingham.
The early years of his civil engineering career were spent with the late Mr. W. T. Douglas, whose assistant he became in 1896, and with whom he was engaged principally on the design and construction of lighthouse apparatus for the Colonies and other overseas countries..." [more]
1947 Obituary [2]