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About Maurice Fitzmaurice
Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice CMG was an Irish civil engineer. He was apprenticed to Sir Benjamin Baker, and worked with him on the Forth Railway Bridge before going to Egypt to build the Aswan Dam, for which he was appointed both a member of the Ottoman Order of the Mejidiye and a companion of the British Order of St Michael and St George. Following this, Fitzmaurice was Chief Engineer to the London County Council and was responsible for the Blackwall, Rotherhithe and Woolwich tunnels. In later life his consultancy advised on docks and harbours across the British Empire, including the Sennar Dam in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He was recognised with the prestigious honour of the presidency of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the 1916-17 session.
Everything about Maurice Fitzmaurice →- Occupation
- civil engineer, engineer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Irish Free State
- Born
- May 11, 1861
- Died
- November 17, 1924