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Obituary Notices. 
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Benjamin Hall Blyth, M.A., Past-Pres. Inst.C.E. By W. A. Tait, 
M.Inst.C.E. 
(MS. received December 4, 1917.) 
Benjamin Hall Blyth, secundus, was the eldest son of a well-known 
civil engineer of the same name, and was born in Edinburgh on May 25, 
1849. He was educated at Merchiston Castle and the University of 
Edinburgh, where he graduated in Arts, half a century ago, at the early 
age of eighteen. He Avas then apprenticed to the firm of B. & E. Blyth, 
founded by his father and uncle, and, after serving his time, was admitted 
in 1871 to partnership in the firm, which had then become Blyth & 
Cunningham. 
During his apprenticeship the firm was engaged on the construction, 
among other large works, of the Callander and Oban Railway, through 
the heart of the Scottish Highlands. Mr Blyth had thus the best 
possible opportunity of obtaining a thoroughly practical knowledge of 
every variety of field work, which stood him in good stead when he 
came personally to have the oversight of extensive works. 
In 1892, on the retirement of the late Mr George Miller Cunningham, 
he became senior partner of the firm of Blyth & Westland, now Blyth 
& Blyth. 
As a member of the successive firms above referred to, Mr Blyth 
was responsible for the design and construction of many large and 
important undertakings, representing a cost for works alone of ten 
millions sterling. 
The first large work of which he personally took charge was the 
Citadel Station at Carlisle, involving the reconstruction of the lines of 
four English and three Scottish railways, in order to separate the 
passenger from the goods traffic and to remove several dangerous level 
crossings. At the same time his firm were constructing for the Cale- 
donian Railway Company the original Central Station in Glasgow, with 
its connecting lines, including a large viaduct over the Clyde. Other 
stations which have been built or reconstructed by his firm include the 
present Waverley and Princes Street Stations in Edinburgh, the General 
Station at Perth, the Joint Station at Paisley, and the Central Station 
at Leith. 
For a couple of years preceding Mr Cunningham’s retirement the firm 
were joint engineers for the Glasgow Central (Underground) Railway — a 
