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 engineer, he eventually entered the Applied Sciences Department of the same College under Professor Cowper.

Upon leaving King's College he joined the firm of Messrs. Fox, Henderson and Co., at Birmingham, where he was engeged upon many different works, but chiefly upon the designs for the ironwork of the Great Exhibition Building of 1851. Upon its erection he prepared a very interesting "bird's-eye" view of the structure as it stood in Hyde Park, which hededicated by special permission to H.R.H. the date Prince Consort. He also had the supervision of the firm's numerous pupils, to whom he regularly lectured, and generally instructed in the theoretical part of their work.

Upon the completion of his engagement with Messrs. Fox, Henderson and Co., Mr. Shelley went to Mr. Thomas Cubitt's brickworks at Burham, where he erected a pair of 60-HP. engines, which were removed from the Croydon Atmospheric Railway.

He was next engaged by the Ebbw Vale Coal and Iron Company at their Victoria Works, South Wales, and whilst here he made a very complete set of diagrams upon mechanical subjects, and gave a course of evening lectures to the workmen employed at the works during the day; and, judging from the large attendance of the men and lads, they evidently appreciated Mr. Shelley's efforts on their behalf.

Afterwards he became Chief Assistant to the late Sir William (then Mr.) Siemens, and subsequently he was appointed Principal Draughtsman in the drawing office of Mr. Edward Woods. Later, for a period of about five years, he was engaged in the drawing offic eof Mr. E. A. Cowper. He next went to Spain, where he fulfilled an important engagement upon the Tudela and Bilbao Railway.

In the year 1860 he was appointed Professor of Manufacturing Art and Machinery in King's College, London, in the same department to which he had formerly belonged as a student, and filling the "Chair" previously occupied by Professor Cowper, under whom he had pursued his studies whilst at the College, and for whom he had the very highest regard. This post he held for a period of thirty years, only vacating it about a year before his death.

At the time of his application for the Professorship, Mr. Shelley was established as an engineer in Westminster, and amongst many other and varied works upon which he was engaged in practice, he undertook and carried out the plans for the Thames Valley Railway, which ultimately became a branch of the London and South Western line.

During the earlier years of his professional career, and before