Captain William Scarth Moorsom (1804-1863) was an English soldier and engineer. He was born in Whitby to a military family, being the son of an admiral, and trained at Sandhurst, becoming a captain in the 52nd regiment (Royal Engineers). After assisting Robert Stephenson he created railway lines in England, Belgium, Germany and Ceylon.
Moorsom was the son of Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, who had served at the Trafalgar, and his wife Eleanor.
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Captain William Scarth Moorsom (1804-1863) was an English soldier and engineer. He was born in Whitby to a military family, being the son of an admiral, and trained at Sandhurst, becoming a captain in the 52nd regiment (Royal Engineers). After assisting Robert Stephenson he created railway lines in England, Belgium, Germany and Ceylon.
Moorsom was the son of Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, who had served at the Trafalgar, and his wife Eleanor.
Moorsom seems to have made his mark when he served in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the eighteen-twenties, as a deputy quartermaster-general, publishing his Letters From Nova Scotia; comprising Sketches of a Young Country in 1830.
He then returned to England and, with experience of military surveying made the acquaintance of Robert Stephenson, becoming the engineer for the Cromford and High Peak Railway. He assisted Stephenson in the construction of the London and Birmingham Railway. Seeing a future in railway engineering, he sold his commission in 1832...
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