Francis Ernest Wentworth-Sheilds OBE (also spelt Shields; 16 November 1869 – 10 May 1959) was a British

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...

.. Francis Ernest Sheilds was born in

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in 1869, the younger son of engineer

Francis Webb Sheilds Francis Webb Wentworth-Sheilds (born Sheilds; 8 October 1820 – 18 January 1906) was an Anglo-Irish civil engineer on the Sydney Railway Company during its construction but before its opening. In Great Britain and Ireland, Sheilds worked on a ...

. Rev.

Wentworth Wentworth-Sheilds The Rt. Rev. Wentworth Francis Wentworth-Sheilds (also spelt Shields; 2 April 1867 – 13 September 1944) was an Anglicanism, Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in 1867, the eldest of two sons of engineer Fran ...

was his elder brother. The family added the surname Wentworth in 1877. He was educated at St Paul's School in London and

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. He was appointed to be a

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of the Territorial Army's

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, an unpaid, volunteer unit which provides technical expertise to the

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, on 28 March 1925. He served as president of the

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for the November 1944 to November 1945 session. Wentworth-Shields was an Officer of the

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. He died in 1959 in

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* 1869 births 1959 deaths Engineers from London British civil engineers Officers of the Order of the British Empire Engineer and Railway Staff Corps officers Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers Presidents of the Institution of Structural Engineers {{civil-engineering-stub