Person Jenkin; Henry Charles Fleeming (1833 - 1885); engineer and electrician Jenkin Henry Charles Fleeming engineer and electrician 1833 - 1885 British Male Dungeness, Kent, England 25 March 1833 Edinburgh 12 June 1885

Civil engineer Engineering Education: Edinburgh Academy; Genoa. MA Career: Met James Clerk Maxwell (FRS 1861) at school; apprenticed at the engineering works of Sir William Fairbairn (FRS 1850) (1851), Manchester, and to the works of John Penn (FRS 1859), Greenwich; experimented on the resistance and insulation of electric cables; fitted electric cables (1858-1873); Professor of Engineering, University College, London (1865); Professor of Engineering, University of Edinburgh (1868-1885); died of blood poisoning after an operation on his foot Son of Charles Jenkin, RN, and his wife Henrietta Camilla, novelist; married (1859) Anne, daughter of Alfred Austin; father of Charles Frewen Jenkin (FRS 1931) Fellow 01/06/1865 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1885 vol 39 pp i-iii signed by W T References: T M Charlton, 'Maxwell, Jenkin and Cotterill and the Theory of Statically-Indeterminate Structures' in NR 1971 vol 26 pp 233-246 Graeme Gooday, 'A Victorian scientist and engineer', review of Gillian Cookson and Colin Hempstead, 'Fleeming Jenkin and the birth of electrical engineering' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 265-266 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 25 Mar 1833 - 12 Jun 1885 NA7979 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/46922041 15e861ab-cfd4-48a6-9381-cbc12859f5c2