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 167,072 pages of information and 246,706 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.

Robert Harkness Twigg

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Robert Harkness Twigg (1839-1915)


1916 Obituary [1]

ROBERT HARKNESS TWIGG, born at Dalkey, Co. Dublin, in 1839, died at Kingstown on the 15th June, 1915.

For many years previous to his death he had been, Consulting Engineer to the Kimberley Waterworks Company.

In earlier life he was engaged on railway surveys and construction in England and Scotland, Bridgwater Canal and Penzance harbour works, and railways in Venezuela.

He designed and built a lighthouse on Sambrero Island, West Indies, and was associated with the design of the Karachi breakwater.

He was elected an Associate on the 7th December, 1869, and was transferred to the class of Members on the 25th February, 1879.


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