{{Short description|Irish engineer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Use Irish English|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Edward Waller Stoney | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 10 February 1844 | birth_place = Arran Hill, [[County Tipperary]], Ireland | death_date = 4 October 1931 | death_place = Bournemouth, England | other_names = | known_for = work on the Madras Railway | occupation = civil engineer }}
'''Edward Waller Stoney''' (10 February 1844 – 4 October 1931) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] engineer, noted for his work in [[India]] on the [[Madras Railway]].<ref name="DIA">{{cite web |title=STONEY, EDWARD WALLER |url=https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/5192/stoney-edwardwaller |website=Dictionary of Irish Architects |publisher=Irish Architectural Archive |access-date=26 April 2026}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Edward Waller Stoney was born on 10 February 1844 at Arran Hill (sometimes Arranhill), [[County Tipperary]], the son of Thomas George Stoney, a [[Justice of the peace]]<ref name="obit">{{cite journal |title=Obituary, Edward Waller Stoney |journal=The Engineer |date=23 October 1931 |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Edward_Waller_Stoney |access-date=26 April 2026}}</ref> and his wife, Anna Henrietta Waller.<ref name="Turing">{{cite book |last1=Turing |first1=Sara |title=Alan M. Turing |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-107-02058-0 |pages=6-8 |edition=Centenary}}</ref><ref name="Tipp">{{cite web |title=Gravestone Inscriptions - County Tipperary |url=https://tipperarystudies.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/A.%20Vol%206%20Parish%20of%20Finnoe%20reduced.pdf |website=Tipperary Studies |access-date=26 April 2026}}</ref> He had 7 siblings including the engineer, [[Francis Goold Morony Stoney]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-21 |title=‘Stoney Stone’ serves new purpose |url=https://www.nenaghguardian.ie/2024/11/21/stoney-stone-serves-new-purpose/ |access-date=2026-04-26 |website=Nenagh Guardian |language=en-US}}</ref> He was educated at home before attending [[University of Galway|Queen’s College, Galway]] from 1860 to 1863, under an engineering scholarship. Stoney won the first Peel Exhibition competition between students in Belfast, Cork and Galway Queen's Colleges. He received the gold medal for his final examinations, and was later awarded a Masters of Engineering. He was then a pupil of Samuel Ussher Roberts for two years.<ref name="obit" /><ref name="DIA" />
==Career== Stoney moved to India in July 1866, having been appointed fourth-class engineer on the Madras Railway. In his early career he oversaw the completion of [[Tungabhadra River|Tungabadra]] and [[Ponnaiyar River|Pennair]] Bridges, describing this work in his first contribution to the ''[[Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Smart Infrastructure and Construction|Proceedings of The Institution of Civil Engineers]]'' in 1875. He was awarded a [[Telford Medal|Telford Premium]] for his paper on his New [[Chitravathi River|Chittravati]] Bridge to the [[Institution of Civil Engineers]] in 1891.<ref name="obit" />
He was promoted to first-class engineer in 1870, often acting up as deputy or as chief engineer. Stoney was appointed substantive chief engineer in October 1898, and Agent and Manager of the Railway in 1902. He retired on 5 March 1904, and was awarded the Companionship of the Order of the Indian Empire by King [[Edward VII]] at Buckingham Palace on 5 July 1904.<ref name="obit" />
Stoney was a fellow of the [[University of Madras|Madras University]] from 1891, and a member of the [[Institution of Engineers of Ireland|Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland]] in 1868. In May 1875, he was elected a full member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.<ref name="obit" /> He also invented the "Stoney’s Patent Silent Punkah-wheel".<ref name="Turing" />
==Death and family== Stoney married Sarah Crawford of Cartron Abbey, [[Longford]] in 1878. They had two sons and a daughter, Ethel Sara (1881–1976), who was the mother of [[Alan Turing]].<ref name="Turing" /> Stoney married a second time, in 1925, to Rose Bruce, widow of Colonel N. Thurston Swanston.<ref name="DIA" />
Stoney died on 4 October 1931 at his home, Summerset, Branksome Park, [[Bournemouth]].<ref name="obit" />{{Portal|Engineering}}
==References== {{reflist}} {{Cite IBD1915|wstitle= Stoney, Edward Waller |volume= |page= 416 |last= Rao |first= C. Hayavadana |author-link= C. Hayavadana Rao |year=1915|short=1}}
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