Darwin Correspondence Project

Surveyor and engineer in New Zealand. Emigrated to New Zealand in 1855. Assistant surveyor to the general government of New Zealand (Nelson office). Surveyed and laid out roads for the Nelson Provincial Government service, 1856–66. In private practice as a civil engineer and surveyor, 1866–72. Resident engineer to the Public Works Department of New Zealand from 1872. Laid out and superintended the Nelson and Foxhill Railway, 1872–5. In charge of the Winton to Kingston Railway, the Western district railways, and other public works in the Southland district (Invercargill), 1875–8. Worked in Canterbury district, 1878–87, supervising the construction of a number of railways and other public works. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1875.