Henry Charles Stanley

Henry Charles Stanley (1840–1921) was the chief engineer of the railways in Queensland, Australia.

Early life Henry Charles Stanley was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1840, the son of Montague Talbot Stanley and his wife Mary née Eyre. His brother Francis Drummond Greville Stanley was a Queensland Colonial Architect.

Stanley studied for 2 years at Edinburgh University before being articled to Messrs B. and E. Blyth, civil engineers who acted as consultants to the Scottish railways. circa 1883: Lockyer Creek Railway Bridge at Clarendon 1885: Angellala Rail Bridge near Charleville 1893: the second Albert Railway Bridge over the Brisbane River at Indooroopilly, Brisbane. This was a replacement for the first, which had just been destroyed in the 1893 Brisbane flood) circa 1895: Burdekin River Rail Bridge in Macrossan near Charters Towers 1898: the Alexandra Railway Bridge at Rockhampton

Later life Stanley died at his residence in the New Farm district of Brisbane, on 23 February 1921.