Edward Cecil Bartlett, civil engineer, was the eldest son of Edward Phelips Bartlett and his wife Fanny Edith, born Venn. He received his school education at Dover College, in the town of Dover, England. He became an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and came to the Cape Colony in 1898. In 1903 he married Maud Blanche Victorine Kelsey, with whom he had two sons. By 1908 he was professionally associated with Thomas Stewart*, the civil engineer for the Table Mountain reservoirs.

Bartlett was an early member of the Cape Society of Civil Engineers, founded in 1902, and was still a member of its successor, the South African Society of Civil Engineers, in 1913. However, by 1909 he had returned to London, where he still resided in 1913. In 1912 he published a paper in the Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers on "Investigations relating to the yield of a catchment area in Cape Colony" (Vol. 188, pp. 283-297). The project was undertaken with a view to securing an improved water supply for Cape Town. The paper was followed by an extensive discussion and correspondence on water supply in South Africa (pp. 298-369).

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Ancestors.co.za South African Marriages Search. Retrieved on 21 March 2023 from https://www.ancestors.co.za/database/samarriages-results.php?term=B&sqry=A

Edward Cecil Bartlett. Ancestry. Retrieved on 21 March 2023 from https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/edward-cecil-bartlett-24-gxzlzc

Minutes of Proceedings of the Cape Society of Civil Engineers, 1903-1909, Vol. 1-5 and 7, Members.

Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1912, Vol. 188, paper by Bartlett.

Minutes of Proceedings of the South African Society of Civil Engineers, 1913, Vol. 11, Members.

South African Who's who, 1908.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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