Guilford Lindsey Molesworth

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Sir Guilford Lindsey Molesworth (1828-1925) was an English civil engineer. He was educated at the college of civil engineers at Putney, then became chief assistant engineer of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railroad, but soon resigned to conduct the constructions at Woolwich Arsenal during the Crimean War. He returned to London for a number of years, worked at his profession, then went to Ceylon in 1859 and in 1862 became chief engineer of the government railroad in Ceylon. From 1871 to 1889 he was consulting engineer to the Indian government with regard to State railways. He received medals from the British Government for his services during the Afghan War and the Burma War, and was president of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1904. He published a Pocketbook of Engineering Formulœ (twenty-seventh edition, 1914). His works include:

• State Railways in India (1872)
• Metrical Tables (1880; fourth edition, 1909)
• Imperialism in India (1885)
• Silver and Gold (1891)
• Our Empire under Protection and Free Trade (1902)
• Economic and Fiscal Facts and Fallacies (1909)