Obituary [James Ewart Taggart]

James Ewart Taggart (M´37) executive engineer, electricity branch, Punjab Public Works Department, Lahore, India, died some time ago, according to information just received at Institute headquarters. He was born at Castletown, Isle of Man, British Isles, April 23, 1896, and graduated from Faraday House Electrical Engineering College, London, England, in 1922. He became a student apprentice with the English Electric Company, Ltd., Preston, in 1921, assistant production and test engineer, 1922, and assistant to the general works manager at the company´s main office in London in 1923. In 1926 he became assistant transmission and distribution engineer for the Burmah Oil Company, Ltd., continuing with the company until 1928. From 1928 to 1931 he was transmission-line engineer and later district engineer for the Perak River Hydro-Electric Power Company, Ltd., Malaya. Returning to England in 1931 he was construction engineer for the J. L. Eve Construction Company, Ltd., London, and for the North Eastern Electric Supply Company, Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne. He had been with the Punjab Public Works Department since 1934. He was also a member of The Institution of Electrical Engineers of Great Britain.