David Proudfoot

For the Scottish trade unionist, see David Proudfoot (trade unionist).

David Proudfoot (1838–1891) was a New Zealand engineering contractor and company director in Dunedin. He was born in Gilmerton, Midlothian, Scotland in about 1838.[1]

He was a Dunedin landowner and contractor, and was one of the promoters of the Dunedin Peninsula and Ocean Beach Railway. He owned the horse-drawn trams serving the suburbs of Dunedin and having a "virtual monopoly", until he sold them to the Dunedin City and Suburban Tramway Co in 1883 for £55,000.[2]

About 1883 he left Dunedin, and died in Sydney on 20 March 1891 while undergoing surgery.

References

  1. ↑ Sinclair, F. R. J. "David Proudfoot". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011.
  2. ↑ Dunedin’s Matchbox Railway: The Dunedin, Peninsula and Ocean Beach Railway Company and Other Suburban Transport Ventures by J. A. Dangerfield p11 (1986, New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society. Wellington) ISBN 0-908573-45-6


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