C.E., resident engineer at Holyhead harbour in Wales,[1] and younger brother of Henry Austin Dobson, who would become a poet.
[1] In 1887 he was appointed chief engineer of the Buenos Aires harbour works, a position which he held until their completion in 1901.
In 1895 he was selected by the Argentine government to act on a commission to settle the level of high-water mark in the River Plate, and in January 1900 after the death of Hayter, Dobson returned to London where he carried on a consulting practice with Clarke Hawkshaw.
Chrimes concluded that this was at least partly a reflection of the value of the works (about 7 million pounds), but perhaps also because the project was carried out in an independent state and not in a British colony.
[1] Dobson authored a book, Buenos Ayres harbour works ...: with an abstract of the discussion upon the paper, published 1899.