William Orr Leitch FRSE FRSGS MICE (d.1948) was a Scottish civil engineer responsible for building sections of the Peking-Mukden railway and consequently serving as both its Chief Engineer and Manager. He was involved in the Mukden Incident of 1931.
Life
editLittle is known of his early life other than that he was "from Edinburgh".
In 1937 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Gilbert MacIntyre Hunter, Douglas Guthrie, Alfred Henry Roberts, and Sir Thomas Hudson Beare.[1]
He died on 27 January 1948.
Family
editHe married Katherine MacIntyre, sister of Major Hugh Ross MacIntyre DSO Mc and bar.[2]
Publications
edit- Railway Construction in North China (1905)
References
edit- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
- ^ "Any Information or Photograph of WW1 Hero Major Hugh Ross Macintyre DSO MC+Bar (World War One) Page 1 RootsChat.Com". www.rootschat.com.
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