Frederick Slessor

Frederick George Slessor
Born	1831 Sidmouth, Devon, England
Died	15 October 1905(1905-10-15) Somerset, England
Occupation	Engineer
Known for	Designing and building railways

Frederick George Slessor (1831 - 1905) was a British railway engineer who worked in England, India, South Africa, and continental Europe.

Early life

Slessor was born in 1831 in Sidmouth, Devon, England to Major General John Henry Slessor. He attended the Sherborne School and later trained as civil engineer as a pupil of M. W. Peniston M. Inst. C.E..

Career

Slessor was responsible for sewerage works at Haileybury, Mortlake, Richmond, Barnes, and other places in the Thames valley; a large road bridge at Addison Gardens, Kensington; the renewal of the Cliff Bridge at Scarborough; and, in conjunction with Professor Aitchison, the enlargement of the Rotherhithe repairing dock. Abroad, he conducted an important railway trial at Riga and designed the drainage of that city; in Oporto he designed and built the Crystal Palace exhibition building; he reported on sulphur springs in Iceland and on a government harbour at Heligoland, and carried out various works in other countries.

He also worked in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Alicedale, a village in the Albany district, was named after his wife Alice Slessor. His wife died in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, in September 1882.

Slessor died 15 October 1905 in Somerset, England

Publications

• with J D Tilney

See also

• See also: Guybon Atherstone and South African locomotive history

External links

• Drawings for the construction of Weymouth pier
• Frederick George Slessor on ancestry.com (subscription required)

• Sherborne Register 1842, p. 41.
• ICE 1907.
• Cultural & Historical interest
• Raper 1989, p. 56.
• Marriage Registers 1867.
• Queenstown Free Press 21 September 1882.