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Charles Frederick Cheffins (10 September 1807 - 23 October 1861〔''(The Solicitors' Journal and Reporter )'', Volume 5. 2 Nov. 1861.〕) was a British mechanical draughtsman, cartographer, and consulting engineer, assistant to John Ericsson and George Stephenson and surveyor on many British railroad companies mid 19th century. He is also known from the 1850 ''Cheffins's Map of English & Scotch Railways'' and other maps. == Biography == Charles Frederick Cheffins was born in London on 10 September 1807. His father had for many years acted as official manager to the New River Waterworks Company, in superintending the boring by machinery of the wooden pipes then in use for the supply of water to the metropolis. Having been so fortunate as to obtain a presentation to Christ’s Hospital, young Cheffins was, in July, 1815, admitted as a scholar into that institution, where he remained till the year 1822, prosecuting his studies with a fair amount of diligence, and obtaining several gold medals for his proficiency in arithmetic and mathematics.〔"(Memories of Charles Frederick Cheffins )" in: ''Proc. ICE.'' Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Vol XXI. (1861/2). pp. 578-80〕 On the completion of his education, he started working at Messrs. Newton and Son, patent agents and mechanical draughtsmen. In their employ he obtained some excellent practice, in making drawings from specifications and from models of machinery, which proved very useful to him in his after-career, and aided in giving him that intimate knowledge of his profession which he was admitted to possess. With Messrs. Newton and Son he remained some time after the expiration of his pupilage.〔 From 1830 he obtained an engagement, under Captain John Ericsson, to assist in making the drawings for the locomotive engines. The next year he became assistant to George Stephenson, and worked in the preparation of the plans and sections of the projected Grand Junction Railway.〔Chrimes, Michael M. "(Robert Stephenson and planning the construction of the London and Birmingham Railway )." ''Proceedings of the First International Congress on Construction History''. Vol. 20. 2003.〕 On the completion of the Grand Junction Railway, he set up his own cartographical and drawing business〔Michael Reeves Bailey. ''Robert Stephenson-the Eminent Engineer.'' Ashgate. 2003. p. 81〕 and spend over two decades working as surveyor for numerous railroad construction projects in the United Kingdom. In 1838 he published his first ''Map of the Grand Junction Railway and Adjacent Country''; and the next year ''Cheffins's Official Map of the Railway from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool'' under sanction of the directors.〔''(Herapath's Railway Journal ).'' Vol. 5. 1839. p. 389〕 In 1846 Cheffins commissioned John Cooke Bourne to produce his ''History of the Great Western Railway.''〔''(Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators ).'' Oxford University Press (2012) p. 154〕 Occasionally Cheffins also published lithographical work by others. In the year 1848 he had been elected an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and he never ceased to take great interest in all the proceedings.〔 One year before for his death in 1861 the partnership of Charles Frederick Cheffins and his sons, Charles Richard Cheffins, and George Alexander Cheffins, as surveyors, draftsmen, and lithographers, at No. 11, Southampton-buildings, and No. 6, Castle-street, Holborn, London, had been dissolved by mutual consent. The business continued with Charles Frederick Cheffins and Charles Richard Cheffins as continuing partners.〔''(The London Gazette )'', 21 August 1860.〕 Cheffins died from an internal injury on 23 October 1861,〔The 1862 ICE Memories lists 22 October 1860 as date of death, yet describes that Cheffins died at the age of 54. With 10 September 1807 as date of birth, his date of death should have been after 10 September 1861.〕 after only a few hours’ illness, leaving his son (with whom he had been associated in partnership for some years) to complete that which he had with so much zeal only a month, or two, previously commenced. His death, at the early age of fifty-four years, caused profound regret to all those with whom he had been connected for so many years, as also to those of his assistants, who had served under him in the numerous parliamentary campaigns in which he had been engaged - and to many of whom he had shown much kindness in recommending them to posts of trust and responsibility on the Indian railways.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Cheffins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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