Abstract
HENRY SELBY HELE-SHAW, who died on January 30 at the age of eighty-six, combined in an unusual degree the academic and the inventive mind. Educated privately, he served an apprenticeship for four years as a mechanical engineer, after which he won a Senior Whitworth Scholarship and with it proceeded to University College, Bristol. On completing the course, he was appointed lecturer in mathematics and engineering at Bristol, and a few years after, in 1881, was made professor of engineering. Four years later he was appointed the first professor of engineering at University College, Liverpool. He held this post until his resignation in 1904, when he was appointed first professor of engineering in the Transvaal Technical Institute; after a year he was made principal of the Institute. Soon afterwards the Secretary of State for the Colonies appointed him organizer of technical education in the Transvaal.
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