Ralph Currey Dawson-Currey
Ralph Currey Dawson-Currey (1885-1935)
1935 Obituary [1]
Captain RALPH CURREY DAWSON-CURREY was born in Liverpool in 1885. He received his technical education privately, and at the University of Liverpool during 1905-7.
He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Willans and Robinson, Ltd., of Rugby, from 1902 to 1905, and then joined Messrs. John McNeil and Company, of Glasgow.
During 1908-9 he was agent for the firm in Peru, and took charge of the installation of machinery and boilers for sugar and cotton plantations. In addition he supervised the erection of a hydro-electric plant for the Huacho Electric Light Company.
After a brief return to Glasgow in 1910 he was appointed chief mechanical engineer to the Purdy Engineering Company, of San Jose, Costa Rica, and he installed a 5,000 h.p. hydro-electric plant for the Costa Rica Electric Light and Traction Company, at El Brasil. This installation was the largest of its kind in Central America and consisted of six Francis turbines, the working head being 187 feet.
Later he went to Africa and was employed by the Crown Agents for the Colonies on a survey of the Gold Coast Railway; and during 1920-2 he received an appointment as a hydraulic engineer under the same authority.
Subsequently he joined Messrs. Jessop and Company and went to India in order to take charge of the electric lighting plant in New Delhi.
More recently he lived in Kenya, where his death occurred on 27th October 1935.
He had been an Associate Member of the Institution since 1910.