Wide experience in England, Egypt, and the Far East has marked the career of Mr. Sidney John Powell, AMICE, whose death occurred at his "residence, 195. Route de Say' Zoong, after a'short illness on June 5.
Mr. Powell, who was a member of the Engineering Society of China, end a Fellow of the Royal Geogratical Society, was born in Chester, England, in 1872, and married his late wife at Cairo, Egypt, in 1901. Her death occurred in 1025. He is survived by two children—Mr, Trevor Sidney Powell, who is the Assistant manager of the Asiatic Petroleum €o,, in Shanghai, and Mrs. King, whose husband, Major King, is in the Indian Army.
Mr. Powell was a member of the Shanghai Club, and the Shanghai Cricket Club, and he frst came to China in 1902, as assistant civil engineer on the Taikoo dock construction at Hongkong. He held similar positions on the British Ad~ nulralty dock at Hongkong I 1904, and the German Consulate at Canton 1906, Becoming Chief Construction Engineer for the Standard Oil Ca, of New York in 1908, he designed. and constructed "all of the company's plants throughout North China, Returning to England in 1014, with the outbreak of the Great War, he joined the Special Reserve, Royal Engineers, and was assigned to the construction of strategic railways in North West India and Cashmere, Establishing'his own firm in Shang-hal in 1915 for private practices as 4 consulting engineer, he served as Advisor to the Chinese Government, built, the Dollar wharf, the Vacuum, Oil Co's wharf, and has designed and erected cotton mills ana other structures, Educated at Dulwich College and Kings College, London, he was an assistant and pupil of Six John Aird, London, his work in England including the Southampton dock works in 1608, In Egypt he had experience on the Nile Dam works.
Mr, Powell had visions of Shanghai becoming a city of engineering achievements such as are contained in London and New York, his far~ sighted schemes including the ce struction of an overhead railway and the building of a bridge across the Whangpoo river.
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