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was so called because an uncle or other relative had built most of the houses in the street. John
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England before coming to Australia. His promiscuous lifestyle placed heavy strains upon the relationship, particularly when Rose discovered shortly after Percy's birth that she had contracted a
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Grainger "derived great pleasure as well as knowledge from listening to their discussions of the worldâs affairs". His uncle was also interested in music and took Grainger to his personal box at the opera. Percy believed that his father received much of his education at a monastery
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Graingers stayed together until 1890, when John made a brief visit to England in a failed effort to see his father. At that time he was in very poor health from excessive drinking and smoking, and impoverished, having "lost all in over speculation in mines".
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Grainger started his engineering training when he was fifteen, in the office of
William E. Wilson MICE of Dean's Yard, Westminster. Wilson was a well-connected consultant to contractors for railway and other big projects. Grainger also studied architecture under I. J. Eden & W. K. Green of
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Adelaide's Albert Bridge, and while still resident in Adelaide, he entered a partnership in Melbourne (Jenkins and Graingerâsometimes spelt Granger) through which he forwarded designs for two new bridges in Victoria. One was for a new
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Australia and took a position in the office of A. C. Mais, Engineer-in-Chief of the South Australian Public Works Department. He resigned in July 1878 after he had won a design competition for the Albert Bridge in
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his companion later in life, wrote in an unpublished manuscript in the mid-1930s that he lived with an uncle who was an important influence on him during his childhood. The gentleman was a personal friend of the great theologian
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disclosed that Grainger learned how to construct iron bridges in London. " worked with Mr Wilson, the well-known engineer of the Metro. District Railways and with him, iron bridge making has been a special study".
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John Grainger was an accomplished artist, with broad cultural interests and a wide circle of friends. These included David Mitchell, whose daughter Helen later gained worldwide fame as an operatic
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