Charles Edmund Webber

Charles Edmund Webber (5 September 1838 – 23 September 1904) He was educated in private schools prior to his military education.

Military career Webber entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1853 and was commissioned as lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1855.

India Webber served in India during the Indian Mutiny, 1857–1860

The same year he returned to the Military Academy at Woolwich as Instructor in Military Drawing, and Surveying. He was promoted captain on 1 April 1862.

During the Austro-Prussian War, in 1866, Webber was attached to the Prussian army to report on engineering operations and military telegraphs. Other special missions abroad followed, with duty at the Curragh Camp from 1867 to 1869. In total Webber trained over 300 non-commissioned officers and men in the work of telegraphy. The work for the Post Office was completed in 1879. His contribution was acknowledged in November of the same year, Webber was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He was also awarded the Order of the Medjidieh for his services in Egypt.

Civilian Engineering While still in the public service Webber served on the boards of the Bell Telephone Company, and the United Bell and Edison Telephone Company, becoming a Director of the latter. Following retirement he became Consulting Engineer to the City of London Pioneer Electric Light Company, the Chelsea Electricity Supply Company, the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation and was a Director of the latter two.

Later life and family

Following the death of Frederick Tollemache in 1889, Webber was appointed to join his father-in-law as one of the Dysart Trustees.

Charles Edmund Webber died in Margate, Kent in 1904 and is buried in the churchyard of St Margaret of Antioch, Lee Green.

Works Webber published several works during the course of his career and edited a biography of Henry Drury Harness. His contribution on Light Railways to the Encyclopædia Britannica was published several years after his death.

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