Sir Charlton Harrison

Sir Charlton Scott Cholmeley Harrison, KCIE (18 May 1881 – 3 July 1951), was a British civil engineer who spent his career from 1902 until 1933 in British India. He was the chief engineer in overall charge of the construction of the Sukkur Barrage, completed in 1931. Sir Arnold Musto was the designer of this barrage.

Charlton Harrison was born in Jamaica, British West Indies, 18 May 1881, the second of three sons of the Hon. James Harrison, JP, Custos Rotulorum of St Thomas in the East, Jamaica, and his second wife, Caroline, née Page, in her third marriage. He was married to Violet Muriel Monamy Buckell, second daughter of Dr E. H. Buckell, JP, Chichester, England, on 25 November 1905 in the Cathedral of St. Thomas, Bombay, India. They had three sons.

After training in the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill, Surrey, England, from 1899 to 1902, Harrison entered the Indian Service of Engineers as Assistant Engineer, Bombay Presidency, and served in Belgaum, 1902–06; Assistant on Construction of Irrigation Works, Nasik District, 1906–09; Executive Engineer Nasik District, 1909–10; Executive Engineer Irrigation Canals Construction, Nasik and Ahmadnagar District, 1911-1919; arbitrator in irrigation dispute between Jamnagar and Porbandar States, 1916; Superintending Engineer, Special Duty, Sind, 1921–23; Chief Engineer, Sukkur Barrage, 1923–31; Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Bombay Presidency, and Chief Engineer in Sind, 1931-33. He was knighted in 1932.

Charlton Harrison's major life's work consisted in overseeing the immense project known as the Sukkur (Lloyd) Barrage, as chief engineer, during the years from 1923 until its completion in 1931. It was brought in on schedule and within its target budget.

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