H. R. Fox

H. R. Fox
Born
Harold Robert Leslie Fox

(1889-11-17)17 November 1889
May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica
Died14 August 1951(1951-08-14) (aged 61)
Mandeville, Jamaica
NationalityBritish
EducationEpsom College
Alma materMIT (BSc, 1912)[1]
OccupationCivil engineer
EmployerJamaica Government Railway
Known forGeneral Manager of the Jamaica Government Railway at its centenary in 1945[1]

Harold Robert Leslie Fox CBE (17 November 1889 – 14 August 1951) was a British civil engineer who was General Manager of the Jamaica Government Railway at the time of its centenary in 1945.[1]

Fox was the son of Edith Blount Gibb and Isaac Fox of Halse Hall, Jamaica.[2][3] He went to school at Epsom College in England then studied Mining and Civil Engineering at MIT, graduating BSc in 1912.[4] After graduating he worked on railways in Canada and the West Indies. He served in the First World War in France with the Royal Engineers reaching the rank of captain.[4]

Fox was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.[1] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours.[5]

In 1926, he married Daisy Isabel Squire in Jamaica.[2]

  1. ^ a b c d The Jamaica Railway 1845-1945, H R Fox (General Manager, Jamaica Government Railway), The Railway Magazine Volume 91 Number 560 November and December 1945, pages 313-317.
  2. ^ a b Jamaica, Civil Registration Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1878–1995
  3. ^ "Isaac Fox 1850 - 1924". www.foxfamilyhistory.com.au. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  4. ^ a b "TECHNOLOGY MEN IN ACTION". MIT Technology Review. 42 (3): XIX. January 1940.
  5. ^ "No. 37407". The London Gazette. 1 January 1946. p. 62.