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George Stewart was a civil engineer who qualified in England by means of an apprenticeship. In December 1913 he was appointed as lecturer in civil engineering at the South African College, Cape Town (from 1918 the University of Cape Town) under Professor Alfred E SNAPE. He served on the staff of the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Cape Town. He was particularly interested in the construction of roads and harbours and did some limited consulting work. In 1914 he contributed a paper on 'Coffer dams' to the Proceedings of the South African Society of Civil Engineers. and long term secretary for the South African Institution of Civil Engineers and, with Professor Snape, were largely responsible for keeping the society functioning, with Stewart serving as honorary secretary from 1915 to 1937. By the latter year the duties of the honorary secretary had increased to such an extent that it was decided to appoint a paid secretary. [Fredman 1964:33-35 expanded after Plug.] All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. References
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