Oliver Robert Hawke Bury

In 1879 he was apprenticed to William Adams, locomotive engineer on the London and South Western Railway.

At Hunter and English of Bow, steam engine manufacturers from 1791 to 1921, he worked on the construction of both a floating crane and of a distillery in 1881.

His appointment as Chief Engineer and Manager of the Great Western Railway of Brazil followed in 1892.

He returned to England in 1902 to become General Manager of the Great Northern Railway, joining the GNR Board in 1912.

His daughter, Sybil Maude Haigh Bury, married Harold Manston Ommanney, of Hatfield, Hertfordshire (1885–1964) in 1913 and divorced him in 1927.