Edward Waller Stoney

Stoney moved to India in July 1866, having been appointed fourth-class engineer on the Madras Railway. In his early career he oversaw the completion of Tungabadra and Pennair Bridges, describing this work in his first contribution to the Proceedings of The Institution of Civil Engineers in 1875. He was awarded a Telford Premium for his paper on his New Chittravati Bridge to the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1891.^[2]

He was promoted to first-class engineer in 1870, often acting up as deputy or as chief engineer. Stoney was appointed substantive chief engineer in October 1898, and Agent and Manager of the Railway in 1902. He retired on 5 March 1904, and was awarded the Companionship of the Order of the Indian Empire by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 5 July 1904.^[2]

Stoney was a fellow of the Madras University from 1891, and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland in 1868. In May 1875, he was elected a full member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.^[2] He also invented the "Stoney’s Patent Silent Punkah-wheel".^[3]

Stoney married Sarah Crawford of Cartron Abbey, Longford in 1878. They had two sons and a daughter, Ethel Sara (1881–1976), who was the mother of Alan Turing.^[3] Stoney married a second time, in 1925, to Rose Bruce, widow of Colonel N. Thurston Swanston.^[1]

Stoney died on 4 October 1931 at his home, Summerset, Branksome Park, Bournemouth.^[2]

"Stoney, Edward Waller" . The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915) – via Wikisource.