Maurice Fitzmaurice, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish civil engineer
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Place of Birth: County Kerry, Munster, Ireland
About Maurice Fitzmaurice
- Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice CMG (11 May 1861–17 November 1924) was an Irish civil engineer.
- He was apprenticed to Benjamin Baker and worked with him on the Forth Railway Bridge before going to Egypt to build the Aswan Dam for which he was appointed both a member of the Ottoman Order of the Mejidiye and a companion of the British Order of St Michael and St George.
- Following this Fitzmaurice was Chief Engineer to the London County Council and was responsible for the Blackwall, Rotherhithe and Woolwich tunnels.
- In later life his consultancy advised on docks and harbours across the British Commonwealth as well as the Sennar Dam in Sudan and he was recognised with the prestigious honour of the presidency of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the 1916-17 session.
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