George Stewart was a civil engineer who qualified in England by means of an apprenticeship. In December 1913 he was appointed as lecturer in civil engineering at the South African College, Cape Town (from 1918 the University of Cape Town) under Professor Alfred E. Snape*. He was particularly interested in the construction of roads and harbours and did some limited consulting work. In 1914 he contributed a paper on 'Coffer dams' to the Proceedings of the South African Society of Civil Engineers. Professor Snape and he were largely responsible for keeping the society functioning, with Stewart serving as honorary secretary from 1915 to 1937. By the latter year the duties of the honorary secretary had increased to such an extent that it was decided to appoint a paid secretary.

In 1943 George Stewart of the University of Cape Town (presumably the same person), as co-author with Frederick Walker, published a paper on "The relationship between the microscopic structure, field characters and physical properties of Cape road stones" in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.

List of sources:

Geskiedenis van die Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut van Siviele Ingenieurs. Transactions of the South African Institute of Civil Engineers, 1953, Vol. 3, pp. 353-360.

Phillips, H. The University of Cape Town, 1918-1948: The formative years. University of Cape Town, 1993.

Ritchie, W. The history of the South African College, 1829-1918. Cape Town: T. Maskew Miller, 1918.

Walker, Frederick and Stewart, George. "The relationship between the microscopic structure, field characters, and physical properties of Cape road stones". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 1943, Vol. 30 (3), pp. 183-199.

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