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Brassey played a prominent part. Mr Milroy died at his residence, 
Torsonce House, Stow, near Edinburgh. For the past two years he 
had been in failing health, and ten days before his decease he was 
seized with a shock of paralysis, from the effects of which he never 
recovered. Mr Milroy was very early associated with Mr Brassey 
in railway work, so far back, indeed, as the year 1840, in the 
construction of the first line between Glasgow and Greenock, now 
belonging to the Caledonian Bailway Company, and on which he 
was a sub-contractor. The most serious portion of that contract 
was the cutting of the well-known Bishopton Tunnel, which was 
carried almost entirely through a dense tough whinstone. Mr 
Milroy subsequently acted as agent for Mr Brassey and for Messrs. 
Brassey & Mackenzie in the construction of lines of railway of 
great extent on the Continent, the first of them being the Paris and 
Bouen Bailway, with the late Mr J oseph Locke as the engineer-in- 
chief. He was also engaged in the same capacity on the Bouen 
and Havre, the Nantes and Caen, and the Caen and Cherbourg 
railways. A few years later Mr Milroy likewise served Mr Brassey 
as his agent in the construction of well-nigh eighty miles of the 
Great Northern Bailway ; and there were various other railway 
undertakings with which he was connected, not only in this 
country, but also in France and Italy ; indeed, a considerable 
portion of his life was spent on the Continent, where he became 
exceedingly well known and greatly esteemed on account of his 
personal character. About a quarter of a century ago, Mr Milroy 
settled down in his native country, in order to take charge of some 
large works in which he was interested, along with the eminent 
firm with whom he had been already associated for about twenty 
years. The chief of those works was the construction of the City 
of Glasgow Union Bail way, from the plans of Mr (now Sir) John 
Fowler. It included some difficult pieces of constructional work 
to connect the Glasgow and South-Western Bail way on the south 
of the Clyde with the North British system of railways on the 
north side. There was also a very important iron girder bridge 
across the Clyde, together with the Sighthill Bailway and the 
Harbour Bailway running past Pollokshields and under a public 
roadway, a canal, and two other lines of railway. While engaged 
in sinking the cylinders for the viaduct over the Clyde, Mr Milroy 
