Edmund Alderson Sandford Fawcett
English civil engineer, civil servant (1868–1938)
Summary
Edmund Alderson Sandford Fawcett CB, M.Inst.C.E., was a British civil engineer and senior civil servant. He was secretary of the Ministry of National Service during World War I and chief engineer to the Ministry of Health from 1921 to 1930.
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