Francis Wentworth-Sheilds

Francis Wentworth-Sheilds
Born
Francis Ernest Sheilds

16 November 1869[1]
London, United Kingdom
Died10 May 1959 (aged 89)
Southampton, Hampshire, England
NationalityEnglish
OccupationEngineer
Engineering career
DisciplineCivil
InstitutionsInstitution of Civil Engineers (president)

Francis Ernest Wentworth-Sheilds OBE (also spelt Shields; 16 November 1869 – 10 May 1959) was a British civil engineer.[2][3][4]

Francis Ernest Sheilds was born in London in 1869, the younger son of engineer Francis Webb Sheilds. Rev. Wentworth Wentworth-Sheilds was his elder brother. The family added the surname Wentworth in 1877. He was educated at St Paul's School in London and Owens College, Manchester.[3][5]

He was appointed to be a Major of the Territorial Army's Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid, volunteer unit which provides technical expertise to the British Army, on 28 March 1925.[6] He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the November 1944 to November 1945 session.[2] Wentworth-Shields was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.[2] He died in 1959 in Southampton.[3]

  1. ^ UK, Civil Engineer Records, 1820-1930
  2. ^ a b c Watson 1988, p. 254.
  3. ^ a b c "Mr. Wentworth-Sheilds – Dock Development at Southampton". The Times. 15 May 1959. p. 14.
  4. ^ Francis Ernest Wentworth Sheilds, Grace's Guide to British Industrial History
  5. ^ Masterton, Gordon (2005), ICE Presidential Address (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2009, retrieved 11 February 2009
  6. ^ "No. 33040". The London Gazette. 21 April 1925. p. 2685.