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Edmund Wragge
Edmund Wragge CE (1837 - 26 November 1929) was a British-born and trained engineer who constructed the first common-carrier narrow gauge railways in North America. He was invited back to Britain in 1897 to engineer the difficult approaches of the Great Central Railway to a new terminus at London (Marylebone).
==Origins==
Edmund Wragge was the second son of seven children born to Charles John and Frances Anne Wragge of Red Hill House, Old Swinford, near Stourbridge, Worcestershire.〔Parish Records of Old Swinford, Worcestershire; International Genealogical Index; LDS Family Search〕 Wragge’s parents were cousins, married at Oakamoor, Cheadle, Staffordshire. Their families were prosperous lawyers and bankers in the English Midlands, although with engineering and manufacturing connections. Ingleby & Wragge, Solicitors of New Street, Birmingham, handled some of the legal business of Boulton and Watt. The Worcestershire Wragges were lawyers and bankers. Charles John Wragge was an attorney〔Pigot’s National Commercial Directory for 1835〕 who in 1835 became a partner in Rufford’s Bank, Stourbridge with Francis Rufford, a railway financier, Member of Parliament, and speculator. In 1851 the bank suffered a liquidity crisis as a result of Rufford’s speculations, and failed. All the assets were sold in 1852, including Red Hill House.〔A History of banking in Stourbridge–Part 1; C. Fonteyn; ''Magazine of the Black Country History Society'', Volume 29, Issue 1〕 Edmund Wragge was 15 years of age at the time and the impact of these events must have been considerable.
Wragge was educated at Rossall School on the Lancashire coast. When he was seventeen, in about 1853, he commenced his engineering career as a pupil with Messrs. Fox, Henderson and Company, London Works, Smethwick. John Henderson, the Scottish-born ironmaster, is said to have been a friend of Wragge’s father. After the partnership between Fox and Henderson was wound up in the mid-1850s Wragge completed his pupilage in London with Sir Charles Fox and Son, until he was about twenty-two years of age in 1858. A position with Fox, the celebrated engineer of the Crystal Palace housing the Great Exhibition of 1851, would have required payment of a substantial premium.〔Personal communication with Mrs Ann Mitchell, North Hatley, Quebec. Great-great-granddaughter of Edmund Wragge.〕〔Edmund Wragge; Candidate Circular; Archives of the Institution of Civil Engineers; London〕
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