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Thomas Higinbotham
Thomas Higinbotham (1819 – 5 September 1880), engineer and civil servant, was born in Dublin, the third son of Henry Higinbotham, merchant, and his wife Sarah, née Wilson.
==Education and training==
Educated in Dublin at Castle Dawson School and the Royal Dublin Society House, Higinbotham moved to London about 1839 initially working for a firm that promoted railway companies, and often appeared before parliamentary committees on railways, then as an engineer on British railroads, where he gained high repute in his profession.〔(R. L. Wettenhall, 'Higinbotham, Thomas (1819–1880)', ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 30 June 2014 )〕 In about 1838-9 he moved to London and entered the office of Sir William Cubitt, who was mentor to several Victorian railway engineers. Subsequently he was appointed as assistant-engineer of the South Eastern Railway, between Dover and Canterbury. Afterwards Sir Wm. Cubitt, who was advising engineer to the Great Northern Railway Company, had him appointed as resident engineer of that railway He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 7 February 1854.
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