A boilermaker on the RMS Titanic. A résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website.
He is also commemorated on a memorial at Craigton Cemetery, Berryknowes Road, Glasgow, and on another at Toxteth Park Cemetery, 215 Smithdown Road, Liverpool L15 2HF.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
George Alexander Chisnall
The memorial was originally displayed in the foyer of the Institute of Marine...
Railway and tunnelling engineer. Born in Grahamstown, South Africa. Arrived in England in 1859. Studied with and then worked with civil engineer Peter W. Barlow on the Tower Subway tunnel. The trav...
Professor of engineering. FRS. Born Belfast. Aged 25 he was appointed professor of engineering (one of the first to be appointed to such a post in the UK) in Owens College, Manchester. He remai...
Civil engineer. Born at 50 Ferdinand Strasse, Hamburg. Worked with his father William Lindley on a number of engineering projects, including the Warsaw waterworks and the sewerage system in Prague,...
Born Edinburgh. Physicist. Worked in thermodynamics. Never married but was musical and wrote humorous songs. Died Glasgow.
Plumber. Born in Thorne, Yorkshire, and baptised 28th September 1836, (his exact date of birth is unknown). He is often mistakenly credited with the invention of the flushing lavatory (which actual...
Their majesties King George III & Queen Charlotte were received in this brewery by Samuel Whitbread, 24th May 1787.
An information board “Docklands Heritage – Deptford River Walk” gives a good introduction to the area so we have transcribed it. “For at least five centuries Deptford’s history was bound up with t...
The trees and plants on this green are in memory of Rachael Rackow and Julian Tremain who lived nearby and died with their friends in the...
Edward Frederic. Writer best know for the Mapp and Lucia series set in the village of Tilling, actually Rye, which Benson first visited to see Henry James who was staying there. Born Wellington C...
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