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Name: URQUHART, William CBE

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Birth Date: 20 Dec 1901 Inverkeithing, Scotland

Death Date: 22 July 1982 Budleigh Salterton

First Date: 1926

Profession: Senior Asst. Engineer, Engineering Dept., Railways & Harbours Dept., in 1939, appointed 1935. Originally Asst. Engineer 1926. Dep. Gen. Mgr. EA Railways & Harbours. Joined Uganda Railways 1926, Asst. Chief Engineer 1945

Area: Limuru, Nairobi, 1930 Eldoret

Married: 1927 Ethel Joan Eugenie Kirkpatrick b. 6 Nov 1900 Gort, Galway, d.15 Jan 1987 Budleigh Salterton

Children: one son; Sylvia Susan E. (1931)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Who's Who, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Dominion

School: Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University - BSc, A.M.INST.C.E.

General Information:

Who's Who - Chief Engineer 1952, Pres. EA Ass. of Engineers 1948, 1949
Colonial - Deputy General Manager 1954
Dominion - Public Works Department - Railways - Engineering - Assistant Engineer - 1930
Gazette - 3/3/1926 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. Engineer, K & U Rly. - W. Urquhart
Blue Book 1926 appt 22.1.1926

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