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'''Frederick Lewis Dibblee''' (1837-1888)
was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He was trained as a railway engineer in Canada, worked in Brazil and Prussia, and then spent the rest of his working life in India and Burma, dying of a fever in Calcutta.
<refname=Dibblee>[http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/genealogy/dibblee/fred1.htm "Life of Frederick Lewis Dibblee"]; Retrieved on 17 Apr 2016</ref>
==Railway Achievements in In India/Burma==The following extracted from two references
<ref>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/imotp.1889.20772 "Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers"; vol 97 page 398-399 year 1889 "Obituary of Frederick Lewis Dibblee"]; Retrieved on 17 Apr 2016</ref>
<ref>[http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/genealogy/dibblee/fred1obit.htm#ice "Obituaries of Frederick Lewis name=Dibblee"]; Retrieved on 17 Apr 2016</ref>:-*1864 Nov; First arrival in Madras, as Engineer-in-Charge on the '''[[Great Southern of India Railway]]'''. In India he found his proper sphere, and the remainder of his career was passed in that country, in active and continuous employment, mostly on railway work. After being District Engineer on the '''* 1864-68 [[Great Southern of India Railway|Great Southern of India]]''' , Madras. After being District Engineer for a year and a half, he became Chief Engineer, a position he continued to hold until August 1868, when he retired.*1868 Aug; Chief Engineer of the '''-74 [[Carnatic Railway]]''', also in the Madras Presidency. In 1873 he returned to England on leaveChief Engineer*1874 Mar; He entered the [[Public Works Department]] of India(PWD), presumably [[Railway Branch – PWD|Railway Branch]]*1874-79 [[Indus Valley State Railway]], as Executive Engineer2nd Grade, Ghotki Mooltan, Golki,Upper Sindh Section,Mehur Division, '''Lower Sindgh Section, Mehur Division, Kotri Division*1879-80 [[Indus Valley Punjab Northern State Railway]]'''. , Executive Engineer 1st Grade, Jhelum Dision, Rawlpindi Section*1880 [[Sindia State Railway]], Superintending Engineer, deployed from PWD to Gwalior and Jhansi Division SurveyAmong other work, he was engaged on the then '''[[Punjab Northern State Railway|Punjab Northern]]''', the '''[[Southern Mahratta Railway|Southern Mahratta]]''', the '''[[Cuddapah-Nellore Railway|Cuddapah, Nellore and Orissa Railway]]''' surveys; and in Burma on the '''[[Tounghoo-Mandalay Railway]]'''. *1881 Delhi and Ferozpore Railway Survey , deployed from PWD to Kadapa*1881 Nagpur Railway Survey , deployed from PWD to near Bilaspur*1882 South Mahratta Railway, deployed from PWD*1882 West Deccan Railway Survey, Engineer-in-Chief , deployed from PWD .*1882 Nellore Tirupati Railway Survey, deployed from PWD *1854 Cuddapah Nellore State Railway, deployed from PWD ,*1885 Benares, Cuttock, Puri Railway Survey, deployed from PWD to Sumulpore (Sambalpur) Division*1886-88, posted to Burma from PWD in charge[[Tounghoo-Mandalay Railway |Toungoo-Mandalay Division]], Burma *1888 Delhi-Kotri Survey, Rajpootana, (later incorporated with Southern Mahratta Railway). He died at Calcutta on the 28th of September, 1888, having just been posted to join Mr. [[Horace Bell]]'s staff for the Desert Railway survey in Rajpootana.
Mr. Dibblee acquired a reputation in the Punjab for his bold and skilful construction of temporary timber stagings, made from railway sleepers, for the erection of iron bridges. These stagings were devised so that the progress of the work should not be interrupted by freshets or floods in the nullah-bed, as was the case with ordinary stagings. He was elected an Associate of the Institution on the 6th of December, 1864, and was transferred to Member on the 23rd of February, 1869.
