Background
WELLS, Sidney Herbert was born on August 10, 1865 in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire. 2nd son of late Reverend J. C. Wells, Baptist Minister.
WELLS, Sidney Herbert was born on August 10, 1865 in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire. 2nd son of late Reverend J. C. Wells, Baptist Minister.
Studied at private schools. Birkbeck and King’s Colleges, London. Educated for Engineering.
Whit- 1 worth Scholarship, 1885.
Founded and for five sessions Chairman of Institution of Junior Engineers, 1889. Assistant and Form Master, Dulwich College, Engineering and Science Side, 1889. Senior Assistant Engineering Dept, of Leeds University, 1891.
First Principal of Battersea Polytechnic, 1893. Is Associate Memorandum Institute of Civil and Mechanical Engineers. Original member of Faculty of Engineering of London University.
Secretary of Board of Studies, 1903-1905. Of Faculty, 1905; Member of Incorporated Association of Headmasters and Member of Council 1904-1906. Member of Council of Association of Technical Institutions, 1894.
Honourable Secretary since 1903. Member of Examinations Board of City and Guilds Institute, 1903 of Teachers’ Registration Council, 1904, and of Consultative Committee of Board of Education, 1904. Visited Egypt to report on technical education, 1906. DirectorGeneral of Department of Agriculture and Technical Education, Egypt, since 1907.
Clubs: Royal Societies; Turf, Cairo.