BIDDER, GEORGE PARKER English engineer, was born at Moreton Hampstead, Devon, on June 14, 18o6, and died at Dartmouth on Sept. 28, 1878. As a child he had an extraordinary capacity for computation, and his father, a stone-mason, exhibited him as a "calculating boy." From this career he was rescued by Sir John Herschel and Sir Henry Jardine, and sent to school and to Edinburgh university. He was employed by George Stephenson in parliamentary work in connection with railway development in the 'forties, and then by R. Stephenson in the designs for the Great Eastern Ry. (L.N.E.R.) and railways in Belgium and Scandinavia. He was one of the founders of the Electric Telegraph Company, and the designer of the Victoria docks (London).