Person Siemens; Sir; Charles William (1823 - 1883) Siemens Charles William Sir Carl Wilhelm 1823 - 1883 German Male Lenthe, Hanover, Germany 04 April 1823 London 18 or 19 November 1883 Burial: Kensal Green cemetery, London

3 Great George Street, Westminster (1862)

Civil engineer Engineering Education: Lubeck; Gottingen Career: Introduced his brother's process for electro gilding into England (1843); patented his own Differential Governor (1845); naturalised British (1859); London agent for Siemens and Halske, establishing works at Charlton; laid the Atlantic cable and designed the cable ship Faraday (1874); promoted electric lighting; constructed the Portrush Electric Railway (1883); took out 113 patents; President, British Association (1882) Honours: Kt 1883 Memberships: MICE Fourth son of C Ferdinand Siemens and his wife Eleonore Deichmann; baptised Carl Wilhelm, but known as Wilhelm; married (1859) Anne, daughter of Joseph Gordon of Edinburgh (she died 1901) Lectures: Bakerian 1871 Fellow 05/06/1862 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1884 vol 37 pp i-x References: Otto Mayr, 'Victorian Physicists and Speed Regulation: An Encounter Between Science and Technology' in NR 1971 vol 26 pp 205-228 Notes: Boase gives date of death as 19 November 1883. ©The Royal Society International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org 4 Apr 1823 - 18 or 19 Nov 1883 NA6256 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/80398392 fdfdb331-1715-4f9a-ba8b-164a5e95452f