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User:
Ephebi
Interests:
Victoriana,
Middle East history,
Industrial archaeology,
Building,
Civil engineering and historic
civil engineers,
South London,
Biographies relating to
West Norwood Cemetery.
I also edit some areas where I have professional experience, for WP at the moment this is notably in the areas around
carbon trading,
transportation planning/
transport economics, &
technology
Victorian funerary symbolism, architecture,
terms &
glossary
Materials:
Victorian builders of the modern world
Civil engineers buried in WNC:
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George Henry Andrews: railway surveyor & artist
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Captain Samuel Brown RN?: chains & suspension bridges
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Richard Henry Brunton: Japanese lighthouses & plasterwork
- Sir
George Buchanan (engineer): harbours
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Alfred Burges: docks, lighthouses, roads, bridges & railways
- Sir
Henry Bessemer: steel process
- Sir
William Cubitt: bridges viaducts, canals, Crystal Palace
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William Carpmael: Cheshire saltworks, Metropolitan Board of Works
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George Drysdale Dempsey, railways & author of civil engineering studies
- Sir
Robert Francis Fairlie: railways & railway engines
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Joshua Field: co-founded ICE, ships' blocks
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James Henry Greathead: tunnelling & London Underground
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Henry Grissell: Regents Canal Iron Foundry, Buck Palace
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John William Grover: UK & Venez. railways, Albert Hl, waterworks
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John Hughes: ironmaster of Hughesovska
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Richard Reader Harris: UK & Bolivian railways, barrister, evangelist
- Sir
John Jackson MP: marine works
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Robert Mallet: railways, bridges & seismology
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Joseph Maudsley: marine steam engines & screws with
Joshua Field
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William Mills: Snr engineer of London, Chatham & Dover Railway
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Thomas Sopwith (geologist): French railways & mining
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John Webster (engineer): piers, bascule & suspension bridges
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Alfred Williams: gasworks at Crystal palace, Bromley, Croydon
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Robert Wingate: Canada, Russia, Hungarian, Uraguay railways
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Alexander Wright: Western Gas Light Co, gaslights in mines
Architects interred in WNC (also see
British architects):
Architects & designers who worked on WNC:
Construction & materials
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John Marriott Blashfield: mosaic & terracotta manufacturer
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Paul Emile Chappuis: daylight reflectors & diffractors
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Joseph Bernard Clark: ornamental fibrous plasterer
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Benjamin Colls &
William Abraham Colls: contractors
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John Dibblee Crace, father
John, g-father
Frederick: architectural decorator, Brighton Pavilion, Houses of Parliamant
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Thomas Cubitt: builder of Belgravia & Buckingham Palace
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Charles Larkin Francis: early cement manufacturer
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Christopher Gabriel & son
Sir Thomas Lord Mayor: timber merchant
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John George Hammack: timber merchant, surveyor to City of London
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William Higgs: contractor, Nat His Museum, Spurgeon's Tabernacle
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George Jennings: Sanitary works, rubber taps, Scutari hospital
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George Myers: contractor for many of Pugin's works
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Frederick Nettlefold: wood screws & fixings
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John Oakey: sandpaper
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Frederick Ransome: artificial sandstone, slag & lime cement
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James John Stevens & son John: railway signals & gaslights
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Tredwell Brothers: John & Thomas, railway contractors
Electrical engineers