Francis Maurice Gustavus du Plat Taylor

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Francis Maurice Gustavus du Plat Taylor C.B. , also du Plat-Taylor ( 7 December 1878 - 22 May 1954 ) was a British engineer for port facilities and land reclamation .

Life

He came from the French noble family du Plat , whose first representative in Germany was Pierre Joseph du Plat (1657–1709), the progenitor of the Hanoverian line. Members of this German line again entered royal Danish and British services. He was the son of British Colonel John Lowther du Plat Taylor Esq. (1829–1904), founder of the Army Post Office Corps . His older brother was the British Lieutenant Colonel St. John Louis Hyde du Plat Taylor (1865-1936).

Plat Taylor attended Winchester College and then studied at the University of London . He began his professional career under Anthony George Lyster (1852-1920) as a marine engineer and acting resident engineer at the Mersey Docks and Harbor Company in Liverpool . From 1904 he was the responsible engineer (Resident Engineer) for the East India Docks and West India Docks at the India Docks Company in London , where he remained until 1909. In 1909, when the privately owned port facilities (docks) the property of the Port of London Authority went over (Port of London Authority), he became the engineer responsible for the Tilbury docks to the Port Authority, which he greatly expanded from the 1912th

During the First World War (1914–1918) he was with the Royal Artillery as a captain and from December 21, 1917 as a major instructor for shooting and commander of an artillery school in France . In this rank he was released as a reservist on June 29, 1929 from the army with the Royal Engineers .

After leaving the London port authority, he worked from 1924 as a consulting engineer and constructed flood protection facilities in Kent and Sussex , river engineering and drainage . In addition, he was an expert and court expert in numerous cases . On November 26, 1934, he and Eldon Frederick Power applied for the patent improvements in and relating to concrete tanks or swimming pools (patent GB420097).

In 1938 he was appointed to the council of Surrey elected and held this office until 1953 held, where he was then still out on the supplementary list. He was also chairman of the Mortlake Bench from 1950 to 1953.

For his services, Plat Taylor was named Companion of the Order of the Bath . He was married to Violet Clerk since February 13, 1909 , the eldest of four daughters of John Frederick Clerk (1848-1931) and Eleanor Smith (?? - 1937). The couple had a son and a daughter. After his death, the Institution of Civil Engineers published a detailed obituary.

Memberships

In 1919 he became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the professional association of British civil engineers. He was also a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , Fellow of the Royal Institute of Arbitrators , Past President of the British section of the Société des Ingénieurs civils de France , member of the Association of Consulting Engineers and Felow of the Royal Society of Arts . From 1937 until his death, Plat Taylor was a member of the Scientific Development Committee of the Royal National Institute of Blind People, and from 1945 to 1949 chairman of that committee.

Works (selection)

  • Extensions at Tilbury Docks, 1912-1917 , December 1922, in: Minutes of the Proceedings , Volume 215, January 1923, pages 165-180
  • The Design, Construction and Maintenance of Docks, Wharves and Piers , Verlag Ernest Benn, several editions, London 1928, 1934 a. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949
  • Changes in the coastline near Rye , with Edward Hubert Chater , Institution of Civil Engineers, 1930
  • Cottage hospitals , Benn, 1930
  • Reclamation of Land from the Sea , Constable & Co., London 1931
  • The Prevention of Coast Erosion , in: Journal of the ICE , Volume 15, Issue 1, London 1940
  • Coast protection and the reclamation of land from the sea , Royal Society of Arts, 1950

Orders and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in: Journal of the Royal Society of Arts , Volume 102, Royal Society of Arts, 1954, page 593 ( excerpt )
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 33510, HMSO, London, June 28, 1929, p. 4273 ( PDF , accessed October 21, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ Object description  ( 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.directorypatent.com  
  4. ^ Francis Maurice Gustavus Du Plat Taylor on thepeerage.com , accessed August 18, 2015.
  5. ^ ICE Proceedings , Volume 3, Issue 5, September 1, 1954, page 624f.
personal data
SURNAME Du Plat Taylor, Francis Maurice Gustavus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES You Plat-Taylor, FMG
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British marine engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1878
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1954