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...
Born Kelso. Structural engineer. Worked in shipbuilding and boiler design. Died at a relative's house at Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey.
Born Dartington, Devon. Engineer. Worked with railways and ships. Died on holiday in Simonstown, South Africa, where he is buried.
Civil engineer. Born at 1 Surrey Square, Old Kent Road. In his youth, he worked with Marc Isambard Brunel and Francis Giles. In Germany he became involved in the development of railways. With his s...
The first public street lighting with gas was demonstrated in Pall Mall by Frederick Winsor in 1807. In January he lit the street and in June he put on a special gas-lit exhibition here, celebrati...
Airplane designed and built by Alliott Verdon Roe. The first all-British aircraft, its maiden flight took place on Walthamstow Marshes. The photograph shows Roe standing by the plane. We guess Roe ...
Tory MP. Early in the 1700s he moved into Lauderdale House and took a great interest in Highgate. He became the treasurer and one of the governors of Highgate School and its Chapel. In Southwoo...
Boiler House, this building was originally used as a boiler house during the construction of Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames tunnel between...
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