1. Life

2. Publication

3. References

Lawrence Ennis CMG^[1] OBE^[1] (31 August 1871 – 5 May 1938)^[1] was a Scottish-born engineer.

He was best known as the managing director of Dorman Long and the main supervisor of the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.^[2]

Life

Ennis was born in West Calder, Scotland.^[2] He was descended from a family of engineers on his maternal line.^[3] He went to work in a shale pit from the age of twelve.^[4] When he was 15 he emigrated with his family to the United States.^[4]

Ennis managed one of the American Bridge Company's largest sites by 1900.^[2] Ennis joined Dorman Long in 1903 as superintendent in charge of bridge and constructional works.^[5] In 1905 he was made works manager.^[5] Ennis became general manager of the company in 1915 and a company director in 1924.^[6]

Ennis was appointed OBE in 1918, in reignition of his conversion of the Dorman Long works into a munitions manufacturing site during World War One.^[7]

From 1924 to 1932 Ennis was resident in Australia to manage the construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge.^[8][9]

Upon his return to Britain in 1932, Ennis was appointed managing director of Dorman Long.^[10] Under his tenure the firm built a large steelworks at Warrenby, Redcar.^[11]

He died in 1938.^[12]

Publication

• {{Citation | author1=Brearley, Joan McDonald | author2=Ennis, Lawrence | title=The bridge opened : official opening, 19th March, 1932 | publication-date=1982 | publisher=Pylon Press | isbn=978-0-9593592-0-6 }}
• As joint author – in Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. 238 – Session 1933-1934, Pt. 2. London: 1935. 2) Sydney Harbour Bridge: Manufacture of the Structural Steelwork and Erection of the Bridge, by R. Freeman and L. Ennis;^[13]

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