Walters, Rupert Cavendish Skyring, 1889-1980
- GB-2014-WSA-17603
- Person
- 1889-1980
Walters, Rupert Cavendish Skyring, only son of William Charles Flamstead Walters, Professor of Classical Literature, King's Coll. London, by Ethel Mary Aileen, youngest daughter of Major-Gen. Charles Francis Skyring, R.E., Governor of Mauritius; b. July 21, 1889; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (A); left July 1907; King's Coll. London; B.Sc. 1917; M.I.C.E. 1930; sometime resident engineer under Sir John Hunter; asst. and partner to Herbert Lapworth, D.Sc., later a partner in H. Lapworth Partners, consulting engineers; president of Inst. Water Engineers, 1950; president British section of the Société des Ingénieurs Civil de France; author of The Nation's Water Supply (1936); Dam Geology (1962); m. May 12, 1932, Sylvia Doreen Barham, daughter of Wilmer H. Beal; d. 19 Feb. 1980.