Penarth Dock, South Wales - 150 years - the heritage and legacy  
Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .

Index to Volume Seven - The People - Dock Family Trees - Engineers, Artisans & Doers . . .

Harrison Hayter (1825-1898)

The publication 'Who Was Who, 1897 - 1916' [1021] [499] records : -

Hayter, Harrison, Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers ; Lieut.-Col. Engineer and Railway Volunteer Staff Corps ; Civil Engineer ; b. Falmouth, 10 April 1825; m. e. d. of late Rev. Thomas Walker, Rector of Offord d'Arcy, Hunts, a Lincolnshire landowner, 1854.

Railways - Commenced his professional training on Stockton and Darlington Railway ; afterwards engaged in construction of Great Northern Railway ; joined Sir John Hawkshaw, 1857, till retirement of Sir John Hawkshaw, 1888 ; was engaged in the construction of Railways - Lancashire and Yorkshire ; Charing Cross and Cannon Street lines ; East London Railway ; completion of Inner Circle of Metropolitan and District lines ; Severn Tunnel Railway in England , and many abroad :

Harbours - Holyhead ; Alderney ; Ymuiden (Holland ) ; Mormugao (India) :

Docks - South Dock of West India Docks ; Docks at Hull, Penarth, Maryport, Fleetwood, and Dover :

Bridges - Charing Cross and Cannon Street Bridges ; Clifton Suspension Bridge, etc.

Works - Amsterdam Ship Canal ; Foundations of Spithead Forts ; Middle Level ; River Witham ; Thames Valley Drainages ; Sewerage of Brighton ; at time of death engaged in carrying out the large system of Docks at Buenos Ayres with a dredged channel 14 miles long and a river frontage of 3½ miles.

Publications : An Account of the Construction of the large Breakwater at Holyhead ; The Details of the Construction of the Charing Cross Railway Bridge ; The Construction of the Amsterdam Ship Canal.

Address : 33 Great George Street, Westminster ; 61 Addison Road, Kensington.

Clubs : Athenæum, St. Stephen's.

Died 5 May 1898.

 

 

 
 
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