William Charles Fletcher
William Charles Fletcher (c1871-1939)
1941 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM CHARLES FLETCHER received his technical education from 1887 to 1889 at the Polytechnic Engineering School, under Professor Henry J. Spooner, M.I.Mech.E., and served his apprenticeship with Messrs. J. Richmond and Company, Bow, from 1889 to 1892, remaining in charge of that firm's outdoor work until March 1896.
After employment in the drawing office and diamond setting shop of the Diamond Rock Boring and Engineering Company, Lambeth, and in the torpedo engine works of Peter Brotherhood, Ltd., he was appointed instructor in science and mechanical work under the London School Board from 1899 to 1902. Mr. Fletcher then went to Egypt on his appointment as engineering instructor to the Government Model Workshops at Cairo; he was appointed engineer-in-charge in July 1903, and assistant director in the following year.
His death occurred in Fiji on 15th January 1939, in his sixty-eighth year. Mr. Fletcher was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1902 and was transferred to Membership in 1905.