Description
Non-Members are welcome to book the Winter Talks at a “Non-Member’s” rate.
Guests of Members: CA and RHYC Members attending may book one non-member guest each at the member’s rate, but additional non-member guests should be booked separately at the non-member’s rate. (Husband and wife members attending are thus welcome to book two guests at the member’s rate.)
Peter Bruff
Peter Schuyler Bruff (1812-1900) is one of Ipswich’s best known historical inhabitants. From humble origins, Bruff the offspring of a master in the Royal Navy moved his family from London to Ipswich in 1844 on being appointed Engineer of the Eastern Union Railway. He was not the only member of the Institution of Civil Engineers based in Ipswich but gradually became the go-to person for local residents wishing to engage an engineer. As The Ipswich Society’s plaque in his memory on the town’s station states he ‘masterminded the building of the railway and first sewer works for the town’.
Bruff was elected a member of the RHYC in 1855, Chairman of the Committee 1862, Rear-Commodore 1869, re-elected 1871, and stood down as Chairman of the Club Committee 1885, and as a Committee member in 1895. He presented a pair of starting guns to the Club in 1882, offered it a silver loving cup in 1896, and ended his service for the Club as an Honorary Member from 1898 to 1895.
In addition to discussing his 35 years active work for the Club the talk will also illustrate how this work related to his other pro-bono activities in Ipswich
