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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Robert Barker

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Robert Barker (1847-1915)


1916 Obituary [1]

ROBERT BARKER, born on the 19th June, 1847, died on the 11th November, 1915.

In 1871, after acting as assistant to Mr. J. W. Wilson, M. Inst. C.E., he joined the engineering staff of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, and remained in that service, and subsequently of the South-Eastern and Chatham system, during the whole of his professional career. He was Resident Engineer on works at Blackfriars, St. Paul’s, Chatham Dockyard and many other important improvements, in later years being employed at London Bridge.

He was elected a Member on the 7th May, 1889.


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