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Charles Redvers Westlake (1900–1972)〔"(Sir Charles Redvers Westlake )", portrait photograph, National Portrait Gallery, NPG x91721〕 was a British electrical engineer and industrialist. == Biography == Westlake was born in the hamlet of Forton in Hampshire on 29 April 1900, to Colour Sergeant Harry Westlake and his wife Elizabeth.〔"(Gosport Forton - Baptisms )", knightroots.co.uk, accessed 2012-04-15〕 In 1929 Westlake became County Electrical Engineer for Dumfriesshire,〔"Sir C. Westlake" (obituary), ''The Times'', Feb 18, 1972, p.14〕 and two years later Chief Engineer and Manager of the Electricity Board for Northern Ireland. From 1935 to 1948, he was an engineer at the electricity generating station (established by the Finchley Electric Light Co. and subsequently acquired by Finchley Urban District Council〔Horne, M.A.C., ''(London's Power Supply, and Power and Electric Lighting Stations )'', 2009, metadyne.co.uk, accessed 2012-04-15〕) at Squires Lane in Finchley, North London.〔"Finchley N3 Long Lane", ''Barnet Online'', accessed 2012-04-15〕 During World War II he served at the War Office, and at the same time was president of the Finchley branch of the NALGO trade union.〔"(Speech at NALGO Jubilee dinner )", Margaret Thatcher Foundation〕 In 1946 Westlake was appointed by the British Colonial Office to recommend a site for a hydroelectric power station in Uganda. His report, jointly produced in 1947 with the civil engineer E. V. Richards, recommended Owen Falls as the location. Westlake, as chairman of the newly formed Uganda Electricity Board, went on to direct the project (now known as the Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station) until its commissioning in 1954.〔"Discussion. Owen Falls, Uganda, Hydro-Electric Development.", ICE Proceedings, Volume 3, Issue 6, 01 November 1954 , pages 652–666, E-ISSN: 1753-7789, online extract accessed 2012-04-14〕〔Ruben, Neville, "Dams in Africa: An Inter-Disciplinary Study of Man-Made Lakes in Africa", Routledge, 25 Nov 1968, ISBN 0714612480, p.92〕 Queen Elizabeth attended the opening of the dam〔"Uganda Welcomes Her Majesty and The Duke", The Uganda Herald, April 29, 1954 ()〕 and conferred a knighthood on Westlake.〔''(Supplement to the London Gazette )'', 20 April 1954〕 In 1955 he was reported as being President of the East African Association of Engineers.〔"(News from Abroad - Kenya and Uganda )", Journal I.E.E., April 1955, accessed online 2012-04-14〕 Westlake retired from his post in Uganda in October 1955.〔"Company Meetings", ''The Times'', Sept 7, 1955, p.15〕 In 1956 he returned to England to become chairman of Metal Industries, Limited, where he remained until 31 October 1964, leading the group from a position of heavy losses to a profitable state.〔"Metal Industries", ''The Times'', Nov 16, 1964, p.17〕 He went on to become chairman of the metal window manufacturer Williams and Williams.〔"How Williams & Williams' Heavy Losses Are Being Remedied", ''The Times'', Oct 19, 1965, p.19〕 In 1969 he became chairman of the S. W. Wood Group, a non-ferrous metal merchant〔"S W Wood's profits record encourages expansion bid", ''The Times'', Mar 3, 1969, p.24〕 Westlake married twice: in 1929 to Winifred Lucy Luxton Western, with whom he had two daughters (Patricia and Barbara), and in 1968 to Evelyn Isabel Aistrup. He died in Lisbon in 1972 of prostate cancer.〔 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 Redvers Westlake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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