Occupation Engineer | Name Frederick Slessor | |
Born 1831 Sidmouth, Devon, England Known for Designing and building railways Died 1905, Somerset, United Kingdom | ||
Frederick George Slessor (1831 - 1905) was a British railway engineer who worked in England, India, South Africa, and continental Europe.
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Early life
Slessor was born in 1831 in Sidmouth, Devon, England to Major General John Henry Slessor. He attended the Sherborne School and later trained as civil engineer as a pupil of M. W. Peniston M. Inst. C.E..
Career
Slessor was responsible for sewerage works at Haileybury, Mortlake, Richmond, Barnes, and other places in the Thames valley; a large road bridge at Addison Gardens, Kensington; the renewal of the Cliff Bridge at Scarborough; and, in conjunction with Professor Aitchison, the enlargement of the Rotherhithe repairing dock. Abroad, he conducted an important railway trial at Riga and designed the drainage of that city; in Oporto he designed and built the Crystal Palace exhibition building; he reported on sulphur springs in Iceland and on a government harbour at Heligoland, and carried out various works in other countries.
He also worked in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Alicedale, a village in the Albany district, was named after his wife Alice Slessor. His wife died in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, in September 1882.
Slessor died 15 October 1905 in Somerset, England