Anthony George Lyster

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Anthony George Lyster
Mersey Docks and Harbor Board Docks (1909)
The Port of Liverpool building from 1907, previously Mersey Docks and Harbor Board Offices , A. G. Lyster's workplace
Association building of the Institution of Civil Engineers , officially inaugurated by Anthony George Lyster on November 4, 1913

Anthony George Lyster Esq. (* 6. April 1852 in Holyhead , Wales ; † 17th March 1920 in London ) was a British port construction - engineering .

Life

Anthony George Lyster was the second son of port engineer George Fosbery Lyster (1821-1899) from Ireland , from 1861 to 1897 chief engineer (Engineer-in-Chief) of the Mersey Dock Estate , and was born in Holyhead in 1852, where his father was then For seven years as an engineer assistant (assistant resident engineer) under engineer George Clarisse Dobson (1801–1874) was jointly responsible for the port facilities there and was currently involved in the construction of the breakwater there .

Lyster completed his school education from 1867 to 1871 at the Harrow School near London, then another year with a private teacher in Bonn . He did his Master of Engineering . In 1872 he began as an assistant engineer with his father in the engineering department of the Mersey Docks Trust in Liverpool . After a short detour to the drawing office of Sir WG Armstrong and Company in Elswick ( Newcastle-upon-Tyne ), he returned to Liverpool a few months later.

Anthony Lyster made his career there and finally in 1897, as the direct successor of his father, was the chief engineer of the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board , which administered the port of Liverpool. The hydraulic engineer Francis Maurice Gustavus du Plat Taylor was one of the young engineers in his department . He retired from this position in 1913. During this time he designed a. a. the new South Stanley Tobacco Warehouse at Stanley Dock, then the largest tobacco warehouse in the world, connected to the old warehouse by three bridges. During this time he constructed sand pump dredgers in 1899 to expand the port from April 1909 to November 1910, was a professor of engineering at the University of Liverpool and in 1910 was sent to Egypt for two months as the British representative of the Suez Canal Commission . He was then living in Liverpool at 1 Devonshire Road, Price's Park.

After leaving the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board (1913), he joined the London-based company John Wolfe-Barry and Partners (later: John Wolfe-Barry, Lyster and Partners ), the designer of the Tower , as a consulting engineer and partner Bridge a.

Lyster married at the age of 34 on December 3, 1892 in Westbury ( Wiltshire ), who was divorced from her 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 .

Anthony Lyster He died in 1920 in his apartment on Regent's Park , London.

membership

Since June 1876 he was a board member of the Liverpool Engineering Society . From December 5, 1882 he was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers , the national association of British civil engineers , of which he was president for a year from November 1913 to November 1914 when he left the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board Company . In 1909 he became a member of the Smeatonians , the successor association of the Society of Civil Engineers founded by John Smeaton in 1771 .

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 , reprint of an extract from the 5th Volume of Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, October 1898, London 1900
  • Sand-pump dredgers , Institution of Civil Engineers, Liverpool 1900
  • Address of president of the Institution of Civil Engineers , London 4th November 1913, his address as President at the General Assembly for 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, pages 4–41

literature

  • Who's who in engineering , Compendium Pub. Co., 1921, p. 231 ( excerpt )
  • Past president Anthony George Lyster, 1852-1920 , obituary in Minutes of the Proceedings , Volume 217, Jan. 1, 1924, pp. 447-448

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nancy Ritchie-Noakes: Liverpool's historic waterfront, the world's first mercantile dock system , Verlag HMSO, 1984, pages 99/100 ( excerpts )
  2. ^ Transactions , Volume 42, Liverpool Engineering Society, 1921, p. 356 ( excerpt )
  3. ^ Obituary in: Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers , Volume 217, Part 1, Institution of Civil Engineers, 1924, p. 447
  4. ^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 19, Ministry of Public Works, Ernst & Korn Verlag, 1899, page 244 ( excerpt )
  5. ^ Cassier's engineering monthly , Volume 44, Verlag Wendell Lansing Co., 1913, page 141 ( excerpt )
  6. ↑ The Stanley Dock tobacco warehouses ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
  7. ↑ Current photos of the current state of Tobacco Warehouses 1 u. 2  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.28dayslater.co.uk  
  8. ^ Robert William Rennison: Civil engineering heritage: Northern England , 1996, p. 248 ( digitized version )
  9. ^ Mersey Approach training banks, associated engineer: Anthony George Lyster
  10. ^ Francis Maurice Gustavus du Plat Taylor : The reclamation of land from the sea , Verlag Constable & Co. Ltd., 1931, page 115 ( excerpt )
  11. ^ Railway times , Volume 97, 1910, page 161 ( excerpt )
  12. ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch (ed.): The Harrow School register 1801-1893 , Verlag Longmans, Green, 1894, page 346 ( excerpt )
  13. ↑ The Spectator , Volume 140, 1928, page 873 ( excerpt )
  14. ↑ Frances Laura Arabella Long on thepeerage.com , accessed August 18, 2015.
  15. ↑ Institution of Civil Engineers, Past Presidents, No. 49 ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ice.org.uk
  16. ^ Garth Watson: The Smeatonians; the Society of Civil Engineers , 1989, p. 168 ( digitized version )
  17. ↑ After his death, the Society of Civil Engineers was renamed Smeatonians after its founder .
personal data
SURNAME Lyster, Anthony George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British port facility engineer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Holyhead , Wales
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1920
Place of death London