Francis Webb Wentworth-Sheilds

Place: London

Born: 1820

Death: 1906

Biography:

Francis Webb Wentworth-Sheilds (born Sheilds; 8 October 1820 – 18 January 1906) was an Anglo-Irish civil engineer on the Sydney Railway Company during its construction but before its opening. In Great Britain and Ireland, Sheilds worked on a number of railway projects, including the then 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) Dublin and Kingstown Railway. He considered himself to be a born railway engineer. He was educated at St Paul's School in London and Owens College, Manchester. He was appointed to be a Major of the Territorial Army's Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid, volunteer unit which provides technical expertise to the British Army, on 28 March 1925. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the November 1944 to November 1945 session. Wentworth-Shields was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He died in 1959 in Southampton.