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INGHAM, William (1867–1923), South African water engineer, was born in 1867 in Burnley Lancashire, the son of Joshua and Nancy Ingham. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to his father, a mechanical engineer, and thereafter was articled to the Borough Surveyor of Burnley. After qualifying he was employed with increasing responsibility on water schemes in Plymouth (1891–1896) and Torquay (1896–1903). In June 1903 he was recruited to oversee the construction of the Bulk, Palmiet and Sand Rivers Water Scheme for Port Elizabeth in South Africa. The scheme was complicated and politically sensitive but it was completed with very little incident in 1908. Ingham then returned to England and travelled in America, Spain, Italy and Egypt studying irrigation practice. On returning to South Africa he opened a consulting practice in Port Elizabeth and served as Resident Engineer on the Smartt Syndicate dam near Britstown in the Karoo