OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16812, 19 April 1920, Page 6

OBITUARY.

Mr Charles Moore Igglesden, -who has lived iu Neve Zealand since 1856, has died at "Wellington, in his 88th year. Mr Igglesden was born in Bombay in June, 1832, his father being at the time a commander in the Honourable East India Company's navy. Ho was articled in _ 1848 to _Mr Robert Mningay, district engineer _ under Brunei, on the South Wales Railway at Narbcth, Pembrokeshire; and subsequently to Mr H. E. Kendall, junr., architect and district surveyor for Hampstead and Highgate. He left England in 1855 for New Zealand, and arrived in Wellington in 1856. Mr Igglesden retired from the Public Service in July, 1903, after 37i years' Ber-vir-e in the Survey Department. Ho held office for three years as Town Surveyor, Lyttclton; also as Resident En- j Erineer at the same place under Mr E. Dobson, Provincial Engineer, commenced the construction of the eastern breakwater, and was the first official to walk through the Moorhouse tunnel when the drives mot. He practised at various times, when not in the Government service, as architect in Wellington. The old Custom House' and Post Office, Wellington, besides other buildings, commercial and private, we're carried out from his drawings. Formerly an active and nrominent Freemason, he was District Grand Secretary for the North Is'and. under District Grand Masters Sir Donald McLean and C. J. Toxward: and subsequently for a time "District Grand Secretary for Wellington before the creation of the present Grand Lodge of New Zealand.