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PROF. WILLIAM ERNEST DALBY, emeritus professor of engineering in the University of London, who died at his home at Ealing on June 25 at the age of seventy-two years, received his practical training in engineering in the Stratford locomotive works of the Great Eastern Railway, and afterwards at the L. and N.W.R. works at Crewe. His duties at Crewe afforded him exceptional facilities for gaining experience in all branches of engineering work, and in construction and maintenance of both permanent way and locomotive. In 1894 he was at the University of Cambridge as assistant to the late Sir Alfred Ewing, who was then developing a Department of Engineering in that University. He left Cambridge to become professor of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at the Finsbury Technical College, and in 1904 he succeeded the late Prof. W. C. Unwin as University professor of engineering at the Central Technical College, South Kensington. When that College was incorporated in the Imperial College of Science and Technology as the City and Guilds (Engineering) College in 1907, he was made a member of its governing body and remained so until his retirement from the professorship in 1931. He was Dean of the City and Guilds College from 1906 until his retirement, and at the jubilee celebrations of the College in 1934, he was elected honorary fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute.
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Prof. W. E. Dalby, F.R.S.. Nature 138, 65–66 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138065a0
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