Cyril Lloyd Jones Explained
Cyril Walter Lloyd Jones (6 March 1881, Wandsworth, London SW–10 July 1981, Surrey, England), was an early 20th-century British railway engineer who served in India.
Life
The elder son of Richard Lloyd Jones, he was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and the Imperial College of Science in London, before joining the Nizam's State Railways (NSR) in 1904.[1] Becoming HEH's chief engineer in 1913, then the NSR managing director by 1930, he retired in 1941.[2]
In 1907, Lloyd Jones married Edith Penty, a cousin of Arthur Penty, having two sons a two daughters.[3]
Honours and awards
External links
Further reading
- Memoirs of Cyril Lloyd Jones: People, Society and Railways in Hyderabad, by Omar Khalidi (; Publisher: South Asia Books (2010)).
Notes and References
- https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Engineers-in-India-%3A-industrialisation%2C-and-the-Ramnath/2d8e24d43eb32773079e03032c912a58f37cc2b9 www.imperial.ac.uk
- Web site: MEMOIRS OF CYRIL LLOYD JONES : People, Society and Railways in Hyderabad. gmpublications.com. 12 September 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120326120928/http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=10464. 26 March 2012.
- https://burkespeerage.com/record_to_view.php?book=Burke%27s%20Peerage%20Colonial%20Gentry&ref=ColonialGentry&page=1&totalPages=898 www.burkespeerage.com
