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Guybon Atherstone
Guybon Damant Atherstone M. Inst. C.E. AKC (1843 - 1912), South African railway engineer.
Education.
Atherstone was the son of William Guybon Atherstone (medical practitioner, naturalist, geologist and MP) and was born in Grahamstown on 20 June 1843, he attended St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown and King's College London where he qualified as a civil engineer.
Railway engineering.
Atherstone was employed at the Cape Government Railways as an engineer from 1873 to 1896 during which he built the
William Guybon Atherstone
William Guybon Atherstone (1814–1898) medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, one of the pioneers of South African geology and a member of the Cape Parliament.
Life.
He arrived in South Africa with his parents as 1820 Settlers. His father, Dr John Atherstone, was appointed District Surgeon of Uitenhage in 1822. William, a young man of wide interests and outstanding ability, received his first training at Dr James Rose Innes's academy in Uitenhage, being at first apprenticed to his father and then