William Bryson

William Alexander Bryson FRSE (2 March 1855 – 9 July 1906), was a Scottish electrical engineer..

He was born on 2 March 1855, the son of Alexander Bryson and Elizabeth W. Gillespie. His mother died shortly after he was born, and his father, who remarried twice in the meantime, died when he was aged 11. He trained and worked as a Marine Engineer in Leith, and then moved to Glasgow as a consulting Electrical Engineer. There is a sketch of him by John Lavery in the Glasgow Museum Resource Centre.

He managed the lighting for the 1886 Edinburgh International Exhibition, and the Royal Jubilee Exhibition in 1887

In 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, with his proposers being William Thompson (Lord Kelvin), James Thomson Bottomley, William F King and William Walter James Nicol (inventor of the Kallitype photographic process) .

In 1889 he became a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

He supervised the installation of the Electrical Lighting system at Leith, which had electric lighting by 1890 - relatively early..

He died on 9 July 1906. and is buried at Warriston Cemetery.