George Cox, which occurred in Lon, don en November 7, after a. brief Llness, removes well-known Sgure rom the ranks of railway-engineering pioneers in China. Mr. Cox, who spent. practically all his active lite in China, and was for some] years engincet-in-chief of the Cam ton-Hankow Railway, was bora on September 28, 1865." "He received preliminary scleritic training at the Commercial College, Northword, South Australia, and, in 1882, entered upon a pupilage of three years funder Messrs, Seaver and Shaw. He remained with Mr. J. Seaver for a further year,. during which period jhe was engaged on work rud Sydney, accord Mr. Cox's connection with China, extending for nearly forty years, began in 1887, when he went out to Shanghai as assistant to Mr. W. Dowdall. Some ten months later, he ined the Imperial Railways of North China as assistant engineer, and was promoted to the rank of resident engineer in 1891, and to} that of district engineer in October, 1893. In this latter capacity he was] placed in full charge of the construction of 80 miles of railway line, including a bridge, 2,200 ft. in length, over the Lan River. Subsequently he supervised the construc-of the Tientsin to Peking comprising 80 miles of]
able line. On his return to China 1000, after a year's leave, he was appointed district engineer on the} construction of 38 miles of single line, including a bridge, 2,600 ft. in length, over the Tah' Lin River. From 1901 to 1902, he was engineerinehief of the 274-mile stretch of railway line from Tungchow, near} Peking, to Shanhaikuan, on the] Manchurian border, while the railways were under British military] administration. On the reversion to the Imperial Chinese Railways Administration, Mr. Cox was appointed district orgincer under Mr. C. Kinder, engineer-in-chief of the] system, and was stationed at Ying-ow. He continued to occupy the! position of district engineer until 1906, and while acting in this ea fa city supervised the construction of miles of single line.
Mr. Cox was appointed chief dis sional engineer (Outside Wall) of the Imperial Railways of Northern China, in 1907, and held this post} til 1910, when he became chief years, to Tientsin. Meanwhile, the line {to Tungchow and Yingkow had been extended to Mokden. In 1914, Mr. Cox relinquished his position in the] north to take up the appointment of Engineer-in-Chief of the Canton-
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