Edwin Samuel Crump
Edwin Samuel Crump CIE was an English civil engineer specialising in hydraulics.
Early life and education
Crump was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, the youngest child of Charles Crump and Clara Annie Crump. His father Charles Crump was Chief Clerk, Northern Division, Great Western Railway Company, prominent football legislator and administrator, and committed Methodist. Edwin Crump was educated as a civil engineer at the Department of Engineering, Imperial College.Personal life
Crump married Helen Elizabeth Jefferis in 1913 and had two sons, Anthony Jefferis Crump and Colin Edwin Crump.Career and accomplishments
Crump joined the Indian Service of Engineers in 1906 and was based in Punjab Province, British India. Here he was engaged in irrigation projects of the Punjab Water Station. During World War I Crump served as an engineer in South Africa. Crump retired from the Indian Service of Engineers in 1937. After returning to England, Crump joined in 1949 the newly established Hydraulics Research Station at Wallingford, Oxfordshire, part of the Hydraulic Research Organisation, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. In 1952 he was promoted to Senior Scientific Officer, retiring in 1956.Honors and recognition
Crump was made Companion of the Indian Empire at the King's Birthday Honours of 1936 for his work with the Indian Service of Engineers as Superintending Engineer, Public Works Department, Punjab Province.Edwin Samuel Crump was the inventor of the Crump weir that is named for him. The Crump weir is a two dimensional triangular weir with a horizontal crest in the transverse direction and a triangular crest shape in the stream-wise direction. Crump weirs are used as measuring structures in open channels.