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WE regret to note that the death of MR. ANTHONY GEORGE LYSTER is announced in Engineering for March 19 as having taken place on March 17 at sixty-eight years of age. Mr. Anthony Lyster was the second son of Mr. G. F. Lyster, of Liverpool, and father and son between them were responsible for the greater part of the port developments on the Mersey over a period exceeding fifty years. Mr. Lyster was educated at Harrow, and served his pupilage under his father. After holding the position of assistant engineer to the Mersey Dock Board for some time, during which he was responsible for the construction of important new works, he succeeded to the position of acting- engineer-in-chief, and became engineer-in-chief in 1898. He resigned this post in 1913, and then became a partner in the firm of Sir J. Wolfe Barry and Partners, but remained consulting engineer to the Mersey Dock Board until the time of his death. Mr. Lyster became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1882, and was president in 1914. He served as a member of the International Technical Commission for the Suez Canal, and was consulted with regard to improvements of the harbours at New York, Bombay, Port Elizabeth, Shanghai, etc. He was also a member of the Admiralty Committee on Naval Works at Doon and Rosyth, and associate professor of engineering at Liverpool University.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 105, 143–144 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105143b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105143b0