Background
BARRY, John Wolfe Wolfewas born on December 7, 1836 in London. Youngest son of Sir Charles Barry, Resident Advisor
BARRY, John Wolfe Wolfewas born on December 7, 1836 in London. Youngest son of Sir Charles Barry, Resident Advisor
Studied at Trim College Glenalmond. King’s College London. Doctor of Laws.
Consulting Engineer to following Companies: —Caledonian. London, Chatham, and Dover. Lanarkshire and Ayrshire and Barry Railway Companies.
And to the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.
Consulting Engineer to Bridge House Estates Committee of Corporation of London, to Commissioners of River Tyne, to the Surrey Commercial Docks, to the Alexandra Dock, Newport Company, to the Regent Canal and Dock Company, to Bengal Nagpur Rly. to Bombay Portuguese Trust, and to the Kowloon Railway for the Government of Hong-Kong, and to the Shanghai and Nankin, and other Chinese 111 Railways. Engineer of Tower Bridge, BlackI friars railway arched bridge, Barry Dock and R lilways, Kew Bridge, Grangemouth Dock, Surrey Commercial Dock, Middlesborough Dock Extension, Hull.Joint Dock, Immingham Dock, New Alexandra Docks, Newport, Natal Harbour, and other important works.
Royal Commissioner Irish Public Works Commissions, 1886-1890. Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1889-1890.
Estuary of Ribble, 1889-1891, and Lower Thames Navigation, 1894-1896.
National Physical Laboratory, 1897-1898. Royal Commissioner on Accidents to Railway Servants, 1899-1900. Vibration on Tube Railways, 1901-1902.
Royal Commissioner on the Portuguese of London, 1900-1902.
Royal Commissioner on London Traffic, 1903-1905. Member of Court of Arbitration under the Metropolis Water Acting, 1902.
Chairman Executive Committee City and Guilds of London Technical Institute and British Engineering Standards Committee. Member of Executive Committee of National Physical Laboratory.
Late Representative of Great Britain on International Technical Commission for Suez Canal.
Member of the Army Railway Council. Chairman of Westminster Hospital. Member of Council, King’s College, London.
Chairman of the Eastern and Eastern Extension and Western Telegraph Companies.
Member of Council oflnstitution of Mechanical Engineers. Late Chairman Society of Arts. Volunteer Officers" Decoration.
Colonel Engineer and Rly. Volunteer Staff Corps. Doctorate.L. County of London.
Member of Senate of University of London. Governor oflmperial College of Science and Technology. Past President, Institution of Civil Engineers.
Fellow of the Royal Society. Clubs: Athengeum, Reform.