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Name: O'CALLAGHAN, Francis Langford, Sir

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Nee: Uncle of George Whitehouse

Birth Date: 22 July 1839 Limerick

Death Date: 14 Nov 1909 Guildford

First Date: 1902

Last Date: 1902

Profession: Appointed to a special Commission to Inspect and report on the working of the Uganda Railway. Civil engineer

Married: In Myroe Parish Church, Ireland 22 Sep 1875 Anna Maria Mary Powell b. 1849 Newcastle upon Tyne, d. 1911 Guildford

Children: Agnes Mary Langford (Hawks) (30 Dec 1878 Nagpur, Bengal-24 July 1932 Newton Ferrers, Devon); Muriel Annie (27 May 1878 Bengal); Francis Reginald Powell (29 July 1880 Murree, India-1910); Ellen Margaret Langford (1882 Dover)

Book Reference: Gillett, North, Mills Railway

School: Queen's Univ, Belfast

General Information:

North - visited EA on inspection tour, March & April 1902
Mills Railway - O'Callaghan, a railway engineer of long and distinguished service and Secretary to the Public Workd Department in India and {recommended George Whitehouse for the Uganda Railway}
Employed by East India Co.
Ancestry Family Tree 1889-1892 • India. Chief Engineer 1st Class Public Works Department and consulting engineer to the government of India for state railways. 1892-1894 • India, Sec to to government of India Public Works Department. 1894 Retired- Member of Foreign Office Committee Uganda Railway September 1895.
Census 1901 • Crichmore Road, Stoke Within, Guildford, Surrey, England Retired Civil Engineer.
Probate 7 Feb 1910 • London, England Francis Langford O`Callaghan of Clonmeen Epsom Road, Guildford, Surrey died 14/11/1909 at Redbraes London Road, Guildford. To Frederick Welman Hawks Major of his Majesty's Indian Army, Effects £8,375 13s 7d.

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