William Ingham (c1868-1924), Chief Engineer to the Rand Water Board
Water engineer for Torquay. (1897).
Moston, Newton Heath, Manchester. (1900).
1924 Died at Johannesburg.
1934 Obituary [1]
1924 Obituary [2]
"THE engineering profession h as experienced a heavy loss by the death from heart failure, at the age of fifty-six, of Mr. William Ingham, which took place at Johannesburg on March 7th last. Mr. Ingham, as our readers are aware, had for the last fourteen years or so held the position of Chief Engineer to the Rand Water Board; but he had done excellent work in other parts of South Africa for some seven years before being appointed to that post, and, before leaving this country, he had already given evidence that he was the possessor of engineering ability far in excess of the ordinary. Mr. Ingham began his business life by being articled to to Mr. J . E. Stafford, a civil engineer of Burnley, Lancs., and when about twenty-three years of age he was appointed assistant to Mr. Edward Sandeman, who was then waterworks engineer to the Plymouth Corporation. At that time the famous Burrator Reservoir Works were in course of construction, and during part of his five years' sojourn at Plymouth, Ingham was second engineer at those works. He did not, however, remain for the completion of the Burrator Dam, the last stone of which was laid with old-time ceremony in the autumn of 1898, for two years previously he had been offered and accepted the position of water engineer of Torquay, in succession to the late Mr. Thomas S. Weeks..." [more]