Robert Trewhella | |
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Born | |
Baptised | 30 May 1830 |
Died | |
Occupation | Civil engineer |
Spouse |
Kate Lucy Thrupp (
m. 1862) |
Children | 4 |
Robert Trewhella (1830 – 6 February 1909) [1] was a railway engineer from Cornwall, England. Фугикл
Robert Trewhella II was born in Cornwall, in the parish of Ludgvan (3 miles north-east of Penzance) and was christened there on 30 May 1830. [2] He was a son of Robert Trewheela I (1792/6-1846) [3] of Cockwells [4] in the parish of Ludgvan, a miner [5] and farmer, by his first wife Mary Repper (d.1831), whom he married in 1815 at Ludgvan. [2]
Little is recorded regarding the history of the Trewhella family. [6] The historic estate of "Trewhella" [7] (today "Trewhella Farm" [8]) is situated in the parish of St Hilary, 3 miles east of Ludgvan, in an area containing many former mines, most notably Wheal Fortune. A certain James Trewhella, in 1633 a churchwarden of Towednack, the parish on the east side of Ludgvan, is represented as one of two profile busts sculpted on surviving wooden bench ends in that church. It has been proposed that his son was Matthew Trewhella, [9] a choirboy with a beautiful voice who in the legend of the Mermaid of Zennor, [10] (recorded in 1873 by William Bottrell (1816-1881) in his Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall) [9] was abducted from the parish of Zennor (adjacent to both Ludgvan and Towednack) into the sea by a mermaid, which legendary creature is sculpted on the surviving Mermaid Chair in St Senara's Church, Zennor, constructed from two 15th century bench ends. [10]
He studied civil engineering and worked with the famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Between 1850 and 1860, Trewhella was invited by the Italian government to participate in the construction of the infrastructure of the country. He moved to Italy, designing and building railways, roads and bridges, including the seventy-mile line between Florence and Bologna through the rugged Apennine Mountains. He built various narrow-gauge railways in Sicily, including the Circumetnea line around Mount Etna, and the Palermo–Corleone line. He acquired land and sulphur mines, and built the first great hotel in Palermo, the Excelsior, where, in 1903 he received King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as his guests. He is associated in some manner with the Palazzo Trewhella, [11] [12] 91-103 Via Garibaldi, on the south side of that street, west of the junction with Via Santa Chiara, Catania, a large 18th century apartment block surrounding a central courtyard.
He built the Villa Sant'Andrea on the beach in the Bay of Mazzarò below Taormina, Sicily, as his summer house. [13] In 1919 the villa was completed by his son Percy Trewhella, whose daughter Gwendoline Trewhella (born in nearby Catania) and her husband Major Ivor Manley transformed it in 1950 [14] into the present well-known hotel. [15] Ivor Manley was attached as an intelligence corps officer to the US 5th Army [16] during the 1943 Allied invasion which recaptured Sicily and Italy from German occupation, and he personally recovered possession of Villa Sant'Andrea which had been used as an officer's mess [15] for the staff of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring whose HQ was at the Hotel San Domenico in Taormina.
On 2 January 1862 at Leghorn in Italy, he married Kate Lucy Thrupp, an Englishwoman whom he met in Sicily. His brother John Trewhella (1816-1878) "of Penzance", [17] Cornwall, also a railway engineer, married her sister Anna Maria Thrupp and died at Sorrento, Italy. [17] By his wife he had issue including:
In 1882 he became a student at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, where he took 1st-class honours and obtained the diploma of Associate. On leaving the College in 1885, he was engaged under his father on railway and mining works in Sicily and Italy. In March, 1886, he was employed on a project for a railway round Mount Etna about 65 miles in length and in the following June was sent to Palermo to superintend the completion of the Palermo-Corleone Railway, about 40 miles in length. In January, 1887, he returned to Catania and took charge of the construction of a short line from Raddusa to the Sant' Agostino Sulphur Mines and was subsequently engaged in superintending the plant for the Stretto Sulphur Mine. In 1890 and 1891 he was occupied on the construction of the Ferrovia-circum-Etna - the railway round Mount Etna - and also in designing the plant for the Grotta Calda Sulphur Mines in Sicily, of which he was a joint lessee. He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution on the 3rd of January, 1891.
He died at 19 Viale Margherita, his mansion in Catania, Sicily, on 6 February 1909 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. [1] [17]
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Robert Trewhella | |
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Born | |
Baptised | 30 May 1830 |
Died | |
Occupation | Civil engineer |
Spouse |
Kate Lucy Thrupp (
m. 1862) |
Children | 4 |
Robert Trewhella (1830 – 6 February 1909) [1] was a railway engineer from Cornwall, England. Фугикл
Robert Trewhella II was born in Cornwall, in the parish of Ludgvan (3 miles north-east of Penzance) and was christened there on 30 May 1830. [2] He was a son of Robert Trewheela I (1792/6-1846) [3] of Cockwells [4] in the parish of Ludgvan, a miner [5] and farmer, by his first wife Mary Repper (d.1831), whom he married in 1815 at Ludgvan. [2]
Little is recorded regarding the history of the Trewhella family. [6] The historic estate of "Trewhella" [7] (today "Trewhella Farm" [8]) is situated in the parish of St Hilary, 3 miles east of Ludgvan, in an area containing many former mines, most notably Wheal Fortune. A certain James Trewhella, in 1633 a churchwarden of Towednack, the parish on the east side of Ludgvan, is represented as one of two profile busts sculpted on surviving wooden bench ends in that church. It has been proposed that his son was Matthew Trewhella, [9] a choirboy with a beautiful voice who in the legend of the Mermaid of Zennor, [10] (recorded in 1873 by William Bottrell (1816-1881) in his Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall) [9] was abducted from the parish of Zennor (adjacent to both Ludgvan and Towednack) into the sea by a mermaid, which legendary creature is sculpted on the surviving Mermaid Chair in St Senara's Church, Zennor, constructed from two 15th century bench ends. [10]
He studied civil engineering and worked with the famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Between 1850 and 1860, Trewhella was invited by the Italian government to participate in the construction of the infrastructure of the country. He moved to Italy, designing and building railways, roads and bridges, including the seventy-mile line between Florence and Bologna through the rugged Apennine Mountains. He built various narrow-gauge railways in Sicily, including the Circumetnea line around Mount Etna, and the Palermo–Corleone line. He acquired land and sulphur mines, and built the first great hotel in Palermo, the Excelsior, where, in 1903 he received King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as his guests. He is associated in some manner with the Palazzo Trewhella, [11] [12] 91-103 Via Garibaldi, on the south side of that street, west of the junction with Via Santa Chiara, Catania, a large 18th century apartment block surrounding a central courtyard.
He built the Villa Sant'Andrea on the beach in the Bay of Mazzarò below Taormina, Sicily, as his summer house. [13] In 1919 the villa was completed by his son Percy Trewhella, whose daughter Gwendoline Trewhella (born in nearby Catania) and her husband Major Ivor Manley transformed it in 1950 [14] into the present well-known hotel. [15] Ivor Manley was attached as an intelligence corps officer to the US 5th Army [16] during the 1943 Allied invasion which recaptured Sicily and Italy from German occupation, and he personally recovered possession of Villa Sant'Andrea which had been used as an officer's mess [15] for the staff of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring whose HQ was at the Hotel San Domenico in Taormina.
On 2 January 1862 at Leghorn in Italy, he married Kate Lucy Thrupp, an Englishwoman whom he met in Sicily. His brother John Trewhella (1816-1878) "of Penzance", [17] Cornwall, also a railway engineer, married her sister Anna Maria Thrupp and died at Sorrento, Italy. [17] By his wife he had issue including:
In 1882 he became a student at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, where he took 1st-class honours and obtained the diploma of Associate. On leaving the College in 1885, he was engaged under his father on railway and mining works in Sicily and Italy. In March, 1886, he was employed on a project for a railway round Mount Etna about 65 miles in length and in the following June was sent to Palermo to superintend the completion of the Palermo-Corleone Railway, about 40 miles in length. In January, 1887, he returned to Catania and took charge of the construction of a short line from Raddusa to the Sant' Agostino Sulphur Mines and was subsequently engaged in superintending the plant for the Stretto Sulphur Mine. In 1890 and 1891 he was occupied on the construction of the Ferrovia-circum-Etna - the railway round Mount Etna - and also in designing the plant for the Grotta Calda Sulphur Mines in Sicily, of which he was a joint lessee. He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution on the 3rd of January, 1891.
He died at 19 Viale Margherita, his mansion in Catania, Sicily, on 6 February 1909 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. [1] [17]
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