Dr. Bernard Price,
OBE, (1877 – 9 July 1948) was the founding Chief Engineer and later General Manager of the Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
between 1911 and 1936.
Price was born in England, in 1877 and was employed by the consulting engineers
Merz & McLellan
Merz and McLellan was a leading British electrical engineering consultancy based in Newcastle.
History
The firm was founded by Charles Merz and William McLellan in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1902 when McLellan joined Merz's existing firm establishe ...
from 1901 until leaving for South Africa in 1909. He was President of the
South African Institute of Electrical Engineers
The South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) is a professional association representing electrical and electronic engineers, technologists and technicians in Southern Africa. The organisation is listed as a recognised Voluntary Asso ...
in 1915, and was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the SAIEE in 1940.
[Crouch, M: ''The First Ten Decades'', Chris van Rensburg Publications, 2009, ] Dr Price was a benefactor of the
University of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (), is a multi-campus South African Public university, public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University or Wits ( o ...
, being instrumental in the founding of the
Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research
The Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) is a paleontological, paleoanthropological and archeological research institute operated through the Faculty of Science of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously know ...
. The annual
Bernard Price Memorial Lecture, named in his honour, is hosted by the SAIEE and the University of the Witwatersrand.
References
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1877 births
1948 deaths
South African electrical engineers
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
English emigrants to South Africa