J. Monkhouse Cartmell

Engineer

The son of Carlisle's City Treasurer, John Monkhouse Cartmell was apprenticed to engineering companies in Carlisle and Newcastle, before receiving a Board of Trade Certificate as a marine engineer. 1 He first appears in the Glasgow Post Office Directory in 1889 at various addresses, then from c. 1903 at 69 Buchanan Street, as a consulting engineer and agent for U.S. and English machinery makers. 2 He became an Associate of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1901, and also joined the new Concrete Institute (founded 1908, now the Institution of Structural Engineers), by 1911. 3 He was a specialist in reinforced concrete structures, and died in 1930, aged 70. 4

Notes:

1: 'Memoirs of members [of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers deceased in 1930]', Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 119, 1928, pp. 1425–6.

2: Glasgow Post Office Directory, 1889–90, 1891–2, 1903–4.

3: Rob Thomas, 'History of the Institution of Structural Engineers', January 2009, www.istructe.org [accessed 15 September 2011].

4: 'Memoirs of members [of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers deceased in 1930]', Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 119, 1928, pp. 1425–6.

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.