Anthony George Lyster

Anthony George Lyster, Esq ( born April 6, 1852 in Holyhead, Wales, † March 17, 1920 in London). Was a British port construction engineer.

Life

He was the second son of the port construction engineer George Fosbery Lyster (1821-1899) from Ireland, 1861-1897 Chief Engineer ( Engineer -in- Chief ) of the Mersey Dock Estate, and was born in 1852 in Holyhead, where his father at that time seven years long as an engineer assistant ( assistant Resident Engineer ) under engineer George Clarisse Dobson ( 1801-1874 ) for the local port facilities and was responsible currently involved in the construction of the local breakwater.

Lyster was educated initially from 1867 to 1871 at the Harrow School in London, followed by a further year from a private teacher in Bonn. He received his Master of Engineering. In 1872, he began as an assistant engineer ( Assistant Engineer) at his father in the engineering department of the Mersey Docks Trusts in Liverpool. After a brief detour into the design office of the Sir WG Armstrong and Company in Elswick (Newcastle -upon- Tyne ), he returned a few months later back to Liverpool.

There he made ​​a career and eventually became his father in 1897 as the direct successor of the chief engineer of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, which administered the port of Liverpool. Among the young engineers of his department included the hydraulic engineer Francis Maurice Gustavus du Plat Taylor. From this position he retired in 1913 has gone into retirement. During this time he designed, inter alia, the new South Stanley Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse on, then the largest tobacco warehouse in the world, over three bridges connected to the old warehouse. During this time he designed in 1899 sand -pump dredgers for port expansion from April 1909 to November 1910, was a professor of engineering at the University of Liverpool and was deployed in 1910 for two months as a British representative of the Suez Canal Commission to Egypt. At that time he lived in Liverpool in 1 Devonshire Road, Price's Park.

After retiring from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board ( 1913) he went as a consulting engineer ( Consulting Engineer) and partner in the London firm of John Wolfe Barry and Partners ( thereafter: John Wolfe - Barry, Lyster and Partners ) of the designer of the Tower Bridge a.

Lyster married a 34 -year-old on December 3, 1892 in Westbury ( Wiltshire) divorced from his first marriage in 1888 Frances Laura Arabella Long ( born May 27, 1864 in Kerry, Montgomeryshire, Wales, † April 29, 1932 in Cuneo, Italy), the daughter of Richard Penruddocke Long (1825-1875) and Charlotte Anna Dick (1830-1899) and sister of the 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall.

He died in 1920 in his apartment at Regent 's Park in London.

Membership

Since June 1876 he was a board member of the Liverpool Engineering Society. As of December 5, 1882 he was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the National Association of British civil engineers, which he was president for a year with his departure from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Company from November 1913 to November 1914. In 1909 he became a member of the Smeatonians, the successor organization founded by John Smeaton in 1771 Society of Civil Engineers.

Publications

  • Dredging operations on the Mersey bar, reprint of a paper read at the British Association meeting, 1895, with notes and additions Referring to the condition of the work up to February 1897, British Association for the Advancement of Science, London 1900
  • Notes on Certain improvements in suction Dredgers employed on the Mersey, of reprint of extract from the 5th volume of Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, October 1898, London 1900
  • Sand pumping Dredgers, Institution of Civil Engineers, Liverpool 1900
  • Address of president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London November 4, 1913, his presidential address to the General Assembly on the official inauguration of the new association building
  • Presidential address of Anthony George Lyster; Some remarks on the constitution of prt Authorities as Affecting the organization and development of ports, in: Minutes of the Proceedings, Volume 195, London January 1, 1914, page 4-41
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