Robert Bleazby
BLEAZBY, (BLEASBY) Robert, BA MIEE AMICE (1870-1933)
Born in County Kinsale in Ireland on July 22, 1870 the son of William Bleazby and Eliza Deane Bleazby nee Freeman. He was educated at King‘s School at Sherbourne in Dorset. Bleazby studied Engineering at Trinity College in Dublin, and then worked for two years with the Tralee and Dingle Light Railway Company.
After moving to Western Australia in 1895, he joined the Engineering Branch of the Government Railways on May 6, 1895 as a Draftsman. On January 1, 1897 he was promoted to Assistant Engineer.
In 1902 he married Ella Henrietta Georgina Stokes at Kalgoorlie.
He joined the Australian Intelligence Corps as a member of the militia in 1911, and was a District Engineer at Narrogin in 1919, Geraldton in 1921 and at Kalgoorlie in 1922. His published papers include ''Railway water supply in Western Australia, some difficulties caused by salt’ JICE 203, 1917. He also published two books on railway engineering. He died on November 14, 1933 in Perth.
References:,
BB 1900, 1905;
CWA 1, p471;
WAPD 1919 p882; 1930 p878;
WN 1925 p63; 1926 p425; 1927 p27;
RRC system of state railways' V&P WA 1922‐3, 7;
DWA 5, p78;
M.T. Morley, personal communication 1990.
