Alexander Bain Moncrieff

He was educated principally at the Belfast Academy, and at 15 was articled to C. Miller, engineer in Dublin to the Great Southern and Western railway.

In November 1874 he obtained a position as engineering draftsman with the South Australian government, and arrived at Adelaide in February 1875.

In 1879 he was made a resident engineer on the South Australian railways, and took charge of the Port Augusta to Oodnadatta line as it was gradually extended.

In 1888 Moncrieff became engineer in chief of South Australia at a salary of £1000 a year, and a little later the departments of waterworks, sewerage, harbours and jetties, were placed under his charge.

He was Chairman of the Municipal Tramways Trust from its inception and appointment of W. G. T. Goodman as its Chief Engineer in May 1907 then General Manager fifteen months later.