Cyril Walter Lloyd Jones CIE (6 March 1881, Wandsworth, London SW–10 July 1981, Surrey, England), was an early 20th-century British railway engineer who served in India.
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Life edit
The elder son of Richard Lloyd Jones, he was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and the Imperial College of Science in London, before joining the Nizam's State Railways (NSR) in 1904.[1] Becoming HEH's chief engineer in 1913, then the NSR managing director by 1930, he retired in 1941.[2]
In 1907, Lloyd Jones married Edith Penty, a cousin of Arthur Penty, having two sons a two daughters.[3]
Honours and awards edit
References edit
- ^ www.imperial.ac.uk
- ^ "MEMOIRS OF CYRIL LLOYD JONES : People, Society and Railways in Hyderabad". gmpublications.com. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ^ www.burkespeerage.com
External links edit
- Cyril Lloyd Jones Archived 12 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- HEH the Nizam's Railway, Poosapally Gorge.
- www.ice.org.uk
Further reading edit
- Memoirs of Cyril Lloyd Jones: People, Society and Railways in Hyderabad, by Omar Khalidi (ISBN 978-81-85425-54-2; Publisher: South Asia Books (2010)).