page_title: Henry Maybury
section_title: Later career and honours
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Maybury / Later career and honours
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of plaque to the south elevation of Mile Cross Bridge, Norwich. The bridge spans the River Wensum
context_page_description: Brigadier-General Sir Henry Percy Maybury GBE KCMG CB was a British civil engineer. He began his career as a railway engineer, working on many railways in England and Wales before becoming the county surveyor for Kent. At the start of the First World War he was appointed to supervise roads used by the Allies in France, holding the British Army rank of Brigadier-General. In recognition of his services in this theatre he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath and a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George by the British government and an officer of the Legion of Honour by the French. After the war he held various civil service positions, mainly within the Ministry of Transport, and was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1933.
context_section_description: In 1919 he was created a commander and then knight commander of the Order of St Michael and St George and was appointed Director General of the Roads Department of the Ministry of Transport, a position he would hold for the next nine years. In this role Maybury developed new arterial highways and modernized existing roads, providing a considerable means of employment during a period of depressed economic output.
  He served as president of the newly formed Institute of Transport in 1921 and as a Justice of the Peace for Kent in 1922.
  Upon retiring from the ministry in 1928 he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire and given the freedom of the borough of Shrewsbury. Maybury was elected as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1933, an annual accolade awarded to the profession's most regarded engineers.  He had been a member of the institution since 1910 and also served as president of the Institute of Quarrying.
  He was appointed to the twelve member London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee when it was formed in 1928 and had responsibility to advise the Minister of Transport on the London Traffic Area. He served as the committee's representative on the London Passenger Transport Board from its formation in 1933 to his death.
  Maybury was chairman of the Lights on Vehicles; Taxation and Regulation of Road Vehicles; Licensing and Regulation of Public Service Vehicles and Traffic Signs committees of the Ministry of Transport.  In 1936 he chaired the committee for the Development of Civil Aviation in the United Kingdom.
  In 1927 he officially opened Maybury Road in Edinburgh, named in his honour, in his capacity as Director General of the Ministry of Transport. In 1928 the Paviors' Company, to which he had been elected in 1918, founded a professorship in highways engineering at the University of London named after himself. For 1936 he was appointed President of the Shropshire Horticultural Society and he had been President of the Shropshire Society in London.
  Maybury also held a number of commercial directorships up to his death, including chairmanship of the British Quarrying Company and trustee of the West Midlands Savings Bank.  Maybury ran a private engineering consultancy based in Aldwych.  He was president of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers at the time of his death.
caption: Plaque at Mile Cross bridge, Norwich opened by Maybury in 1921
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