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for three years resident in Paris, and one of his vivid memories 

 of that time was of seeing in the Seine the black-draped vessels 

 which had just brought the remains of Napoleon from St. Helena. 



On his return to England he was engaged in the construction 

 of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, and on the completion 

 became Resident Engineer of the line with his home at Lancaster. 

 That position he retained when his line w.as merged in the 

 greater undertaking in the London and North Western Railway, 

 and he was Chief Engineer of the Northern Division of the line 

 until his retirement in 1885. After this date he became for a 

 short time a consulting engineer, but devoted nine years voluntary 

 service to the work of the Manchester Town Council. He sat 

 for Exchange Ward, and did very good work on the Waterworks 

 and Rivers Committees, on which he was able to speak with the 

 authority of experience. It is very rarely that town councils can 

 secure men of this calibre. 



" He was an enthusiast for his profession and, both by 

 tradition and experience, keen on upholding the highest standard 

 of professional conduct, and was always an advocate both in 

 public and in private, of the necessity of sound scientific 

 knowledge as a basis for the more strictly technical training of 

 an engineer. To the last he followed with interest and approval 

 the progressive steps taken by 'The Institution of Civil 

 Engineers '." 



Though our obituary notices are usually restricted to the 

 scientific side of a member's life we feel that some allusion should 

 be made in Mr. Worthington's case to the remarkable wideness 

 of his interests. "From the Rev. Edward Hawkes he acquired 

 a knowledge of the classics which was a pleasure to him through- 

 out a long life — within a short time of his death he was reciting 

 Horace — while from Dr. lieard to whose school in Broughton he 

 went for a few years after Mr. Hawkes went to Kendal — and from 

 the excellent teachers of that school he obtained a knowledge of 

 Mathematics, Chemistry, and Geology which was not obtainable 

 in many schools of that time. Throughout his life he was a great 

 reader and had, for a man in active professional practice, a most 



