Edmund Alderson Sandford Fawcett

Edmund Alderson Sandford Fawcett CB, M.Inst.C.E., (27 April 1868 – 1 April 1938) was a British civil engineer and senior civil servant. He was secretary of the Ministry of National Service during World War I and chief engineer to the Ministry of Health from 1921 to 1930. A member of the Fawcett family, his father, Edmund Alderson Fawcett, originally from Sandford Hall, Warcop in Cumberland was a land owner and entrepreneur. His mother, Jane Harrison, was from Sandford House, Richmond, Yorkshire. They had three sons (Hugh, Eric and John) and one daughter (Loveday). He lived for a time in Chalfont St Giles and in 1918 bought The Rosary, a house in Coleshill.

In 1908, Fawcett won the Champion Cup (later the President's Cup) for croquet at the All England Club at Wimbledon, and also won croquet events at Hurlingham. In 1911 he was appointed second deputy chief engineer to the Board and was no longer involved in public inquiries. In 1913 he became deputy chief engineer. In 1921 he was appointed chief engineer to the Ministry of Health, His projects included the Amersham, Beaconsfield and District Waterworks.

Fawcett was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, an honorary member of the Institution of Water Engineers and of the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Sanitary Institute, and a past president of the Institution of Sanitary Engineers.

Publications The purification of the water of swimming baths (1929), published by HMSO. "Rainfall and runoff", (1930) J. Inst. Munic. County Eng.