xxxviii Annual Report of the Council. 



HiiNRY Brogden, F.G.S., M.Inst.M.E., who died at his 

 residence, Hale Lodge, Altrincham, on the 21st June, 191 3, and 

 was interred at Brooklands Cemetery on the 24th, was elected a 

 member of the Society on April 2nd, 1861. He was the third 

 son of John Brogden, of Sale, and was born in Manchester on 

 September 30th, 1828. He was educated at King's College, 

 London, and spent a year in the locomotive works of INIessrs. 

 Stephenson and Co , Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he developed a 

 liking for shop work. At his home he had a very complete 

 workshop, and throughout his life took a great interest in 

 science. More than half a century ago he and his elder brother, 

 Alexander Brogden, M.P. for Wednesbury from 1868 to 18S5, 

 were amongst the foremost railway contractors of the day, and 

 as members of the firm of John Brogden and Sons, of London, 

 Manchester, and South Wales, they carried out many important 

 railway undertakings, not only in England, but in South America, 

 Australia, New Zealand, Holland and other countries. One of 

 their principal contracts in this country was the construction of 

 the railway between Carnforth and Barrow, which ihey succeeded 

 in laying after other contractors had failed to accomplish it. 

 The line passes over a large tract of land at the head of More- 

 cambe Bay which was reclaimed from the sea during its con- 

 struction under the superintendence of Mr. Brogden. He was 

 the engineer for the high level bridge at Stockport, for the 

 Llynvi and Ogmore Railway in South Wales, the Tondu Lon 

 Works and Collieries, and other important works in the "sixties 

 and seventies." 



Though Mr. Brogden was a regular attendant for many 

 years at our meetings he never read any papers before the 

 Society nor did he ever hold any office or serve on the Council. 

 The only communication received from him was at a meeting of 

 the Microscopical and Natural History Section of this Society on 

 October 12, 1868 {Proceedings, 8, p. 69), where it is mentioned 

 that "Mr. Brogden forwarded three deposits of Diatomaceae 

 for distribution amongst the members, viz., from the daltee 



