FULTON, JAMES EDWARD (1854-1928), a son of James Fulton (q.v.), was born in Otago and educated by private tutors. Having obtained some technical experience, he was appointed a cadet in the Public Works department (1873) and promoted to assistant-engineer in 1878. In private practice (from 1880) he made a preliminary survey of the proposed Kaihu valley railway. In 1882 he was appointed resident engineer in charge of the Palmerston-Waikanae section of the Wellington and Manawatu railway, and in 1889 manager and locomotive superintendent. He resigned in 1896. Fulton designed and built the Kelburn cable tramway in Wellington and bridges and light railways in various parts of the Dominion. In 1881 he was elected an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, England, and later a member of the advisory committee in New Zealand. He was a member of the council of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors (and sometime president), and in 1910 was elected a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. On his death (6 Dec 1928) the Fulton bequest to the New Zealand Institute of Engineers was founded.

Cycl. NZ., i (p); Who's Who N.Z., 1924; Evening Post, 7 Dec 1928 (p).

Reference: Volume 1, page 159

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