William Orr Leitch
William Orr Leitch FRSE FRSGS MICE (d.1948) was a Scottish civil engineer responsible for building sections of the Peking-Mukden railway and consequently serving as both its Chief Engineer and Manager. He was involved in the Mukden Incident of 1931.
Life
[edit]Little is known of his early life other than that he was "from Edinburgh".
In 1937 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Gilbert MacIntyre Hunter, Douglas Guthrie, Alfred Henry Roberts, and Sir Thomas Hudson Beare.[1]
He died on 27 January 1948.
Family
[edit]He married Katherine MacIntyre, sister of Major Hugh Ross MacIntyre DSO Mc and bar.[2]
Publications
[edit]- Railway Construction in North China (1905)
References
[edit]- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
- ^ "Any Information or Photograph of WW1 Hero Major Hugh Ross Macintyre DSO MC+Bar (World War One) Page 1 RootsChat.Com". www.rootschat.com.
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