Memorial Stone of the Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir

Daniel Joseph Jaffé (2 November 1876 – 11 June 1921) was a British civil engineer. He was the younger son of Martin Jaffé and nephew of Sir Otto Jaffé.

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, a street in

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and

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was named after him.

Early life and education

Daniel Jaffé was born in

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to the

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and educated at City & Guilds Westminster, earning a diploma of associate ( A. C.G.I.). In 1896, he was

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for three years as civil engineer to Sir James Mansergh, who was famous as a waterworks consulting engineer.

Career

He spent time on the Elan Valley Aqueduct and was later assistant to one of the resident engineers up to December 1901. On 14 January 1902 he became associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (A.M.I.C.E.). Later that year, he went to

as Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department. In 1904 he became Acting Executive Engineer and from January 1906 was Executive Engineer. He was responsible for the Tytam (also spelt Tai Tam) waterworks with intermediate dam, later the 2nd section of the Tytam Tuk with the construction of the then-largest dam in the

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, which was officially opened by Sir Henry May, then governor of the territory, in February 1918. He was also responsible for the typhoon shelter at Mong Kok Tsui. He went home on leave in 1918, suffering from sprue and inflammation of the liver, and was invalided out of the Colonial Service in autumn 1919. He spent considerable time in Eversleigh

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suffering from pernicious anaemia. Jaffe died in

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in 1921.

References

Obituary
in ''

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'', 1921-09-07, p. 1
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External links

Picture of the Memorial Stone (1918) of the Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir, mentioning "D. Jaffe"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jaffe, Daniel Joseph 1876 births 1921 deaths British people of German-Jewish descent Engineers from London British civil engineers Hong Kong civil servants