GEORGE McILDOWIE, who was born at Strandtown, Belfast, in
1886, died in Cobham Hospital, Surrey, on the 28th December, 1953. He
was educated at Sedbergh School and gained his early practical training
under Mr B. D. Wise and Mr B. Malcolm (190447) and later (1907-09) as
an assistant in the Permanent Way Department of the Midland Railway,
Belfast.
From 1909 to 1911 he studied engineering at Queen’s University,
Belfast, and then took up a position as Senior Assistant on the surveys,
plans, and estimates for the Silent Valley Storage Reservoir (under Mr
F. W. McCullough). This work occupied him until 1922 except for a period
of war service with the Royal Engineers.
From 1923 to 1933 he was the Resident Engineer on the construction
of the reservoir, and in 1935 presented to the Institution a Paper1 on that
work, for which he was awarded a Trevithick Premium. From 1934 to
1937 he was Resident Engineer in charge of the duplication of the pipe
section of the Mourne Conduit (Belfast Water Supply).
14 1938, he joined the staff of the Metropolitan Water Board and was
appointed Resident Engineer for the construction of Walton Reservoir.
After the war he was concerned with the large post-war programme of
new works. At the time of his death he held the appointment of Deputy
New Works Engineer of the Metropolitan Water Board.
He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1913 and
was transferred to the class of Member in 1936. He served on the Panel
of Civil Engineers qualsed under the Reservoirs (Safety-Provisions) Act,
1930, to design and construct all forms of reservoirs.
Mr McIldowie is survived by his wife and one son.