Richard Maunsell

This article is about the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and later the Southern Railway. For the carriage and locomotive engineer of the South Eastern Railway, see Richard Mansell.

Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell
In The Railway News, 8 July 1911
Born(1868-05-26)26 May 1868
Raheny, County Dublin, Ireland
Died7 March 1944(1944-03-07) (aged 75)
Ashford, Kent, England
Spouse
Edith Pearson
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(m. 1896)​
Engineering career
DisciplineLocomotive engineer
851 Sir Francis Drake, SR Lord Nelson class
932 Blundell's Schools Class 4-4-0 at Eastleigh in 1948

Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell CBE (pronounced "Mansell"[1]) (26 May 1868 – 7 March 1944) held the post of chief mechanical engineer (CME) of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway from 1913 until the 1923 Grouping and then the post of CME of the Southern Railway in England until 1937. He had previously worked his way up through positions in other railways in Ireland, England and India.

  1. ^ Chacksfield (2010), p. 9.