Frederick Slessor

Frederick George Slessor
Born 1831
Sidmouth, Devon, England
Died 15 October 1905(1905-10-15)
Somerset, England
Occupation Engineer
Known for Designing and building railways

Frederick George Slessor (1831 - 1905) was a British railway engineer who worked in England, India, South Africa, and continental Europe.

Early life

Slessor was born in 1831 in Sidmouth, Devon, England to Major General John Henry Slessor. He attended the Sherborne School[1] and later trained as civil engineer as a pupil of M. W. Peniston M. Inst. C.E..

Career

Slessor was responsible for sewerage works at Haileybury, Mortlake, Richmond, Barnes, and other places in the Thames valley; a large road bridge at Addison Gardens, Kensington; the renewal of the Cliff Bridge at Scarborough; and, in conjunction with Professor Aitchison, the enlargement of the Rotherhithe repairing dock. Abroad, he conducted an important railway trial at Riga and designed the drainage of that city; in Oporto he designed and built the Crystal Palace exhibition building; he reported on sulphur springs in Iceland and on a government harbour at Heligoland, and carried out various works in other countries.[2]

He also worked in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.[3] Alicedale, a village in the Albany district, was named after his wife Alice Slessor.[4][lower-alpha 1] His wife died in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, in September 1882.[7]

Slessor died 15 October 1905 in Somerset, England[2]

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Notes and references

  1. A number of sources including Raper assert that Alice Slessor's maiden name was Dale. This is incorrect, the record of their marriage at St John's Church in the Parish of Paddington, on 10 September 1867[5] clearly indicates that Alice's name was Malton and that she was a spinster at the time of her marriage.[6]
  1. Sherborne Register 1842, p. 41.
  2. 1 2 ICE 1907.
  3. Cultural & Historical interest
  4. Raper 1989, p. 56.
  5. Marriage Registers 1867.
  6. "Marriages". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 20 September 1867. p. 5 col F. Retrieved 2014-09-27 via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  7. Queenstown Free Press 21 September 1882.

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