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. Personal life Maybury was twice married. He first married, in 1885, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Sheldon of Ludlow, Shropshire. By her he left a son and two daughters. She died in 1929. He married, secondly, in August 1942, when aged 77, his personal secretary, Katharine Mary, daughter of Samuel William Pring of Winchester, Hampshire. He died, at his home, Four Winds, at Mousecroft Lane, Shrewsbury, on 7 January 1943, aged 78, of asthma and cerebral haemorrhage. He was cremated at Perry Barr Crematorium, Birmingham. The National Portrait Gallery holds ten portraits of Maybury in its photographical collection. References British civil engineers British Army generals of World War I 1864 births 1943 deaths Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers Engineers from Shropshire People associated with transport in London Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Companions of the Order of the Bath Royal Engineers officers Civil servants in the Ministry of Transport (United Kingdom)