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HAWKSLEY, THOMAS (18071893) , English engineer, was born on the 12th of July 1807, at Arnold
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Cambridge and Northampton in England, and Stockholm, Altona and Bridgetown (Barbados) in other county e`s. To his native town of Nottingham he was water engineer for fifty years, and the system he designed for it was noteworthy from the fact that the principle of constant supply was adopted for the first time. The gas-works at Notting-ham, and at many other towns for which he provided water supclies were also constructed by him. He designed main-drainage systems for Birmingham, Worcester and Windsor among other places, and in 1857 he was called in, together with G. P. Bidder
scheme for London. In 1872 he was president of the Institution of Civil Engineersan office in which his son Charles followed him in 1901. He died in London on the 23rd of September 1893.End of Article: HAWKSLEY, THOMAS (18071893) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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