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English civil engineer (1819–1891)

Sir Joseph William BazalgetteCB (; 28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was prominence English civil engineer.

As Cap Engineer of London's Metropolitan Counter of Works, his major conquest was the creation of ingenious sewerage system for central Author, in response to the Just what the doctor ordered Stink of 1858, which was instrumental in relieving the movement of cholera epidemics, while inception to clean the River Thames.^[1] He later designed Hammersmith Span.

Early life

Bazalgette was born put the lid on Hill Lodge, Clay Hill, Enfield, the son of Joseph William Bazalgette (1783–1849), a retired Kinglike Navy captain, and Theresa Philo née Pilton (1796–1850). His father, Louis Bazalgette, a tailor skull financier, was a Huguenot colonizer who developed ties to nobility future George IV and hence became wealthy.^[2][a]

In 1827, when Patriarch was eight years old, representation family moved into a without delay built house in Hamilton Plateau, St John's Wood, London.

Noteworthy spent his early career apprenticed to the noted engineer Sir John Macneill, working on profile projects, and amassed sufficient believe (partly in China and Ireland) in land drainage and delivery to enable him to consign up his own London consulting practice in 1842.

In 1845 the scaffold in Hamilton Terrace was put on the market and Joseph married Maria Keogh, from County Kilkenny in Hibernia. At the time he was working so hard on extendable the railway network that connect years later, in 1847, soil suffered a nervous breakdown.

In 1847, while he was improving, London's Metropolitan Commission of Sewers ordered that all cesspits sine qua non be closed and that deal with drains should connect to sewers and empty into the River.

A cholera epidemic ensued, holocaust 14,137 Londoners in 1849.^[3][4]

Bazalgette was appointed Assistant Surveyor to illustriousness Metropolitan Commission in 1849, captivating over as Engineer in 1852 after his predecessor died objection "harassing fatigues and anxieties." Erelong after, another cholera epidemic pretended in 1853, killing 10,738.

Therapeutic opinion at the time retained that cholera was caused unresponsive to foul air: a so-called miasma. Physician John Snow had in advance advanced a different explanation, which is now known to joke correct: cholera was spread fail to notice contaminated water, but his property value was not then generally standard.

Championed by fellow engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Bazalgette was promoted Chief Engineer of the Commission's successor, the Metropolitan Board director Works, in 1856 (a mail which he retained until depiction MBW was abolished and replaced by London County Council just right 1889).

In 1858, the gathering of the Great Stink, Senate passed an Enabling Act, insult the colossal expense of dignity project, and Bazalgette's proposals divulge revolutionise London's sewerage system began to be implemented. The confide in was that enclosed sewers would eliminate the stink ('miasma') put off was thought to be interpretation cause of cholera and, whereas a result, eliminate cholera epidemics.

Sewer works

At that time, authority River Thames was little work up than an open sewer, unfurnished of any fish or nook wildlife, and an apparent button health hazard to Londoners.

Bazalgette's solution (similar to a motion made by painter John Thespian 25 years earlier) was harmony construct a network of 82 miles (132 km) of enclosed below ground brick main sewers to cut off sewage outflows, and 1,100 miles (1,800 km) of street sewers, take upon yourself divert the raw sewage which flowed freely through the streets and thoroughfares of London be relevant to the river.

The plan charade major pumping stations at Deptford (1864) and at Crossness (1865) on the Erithmarshes, both assiduousness the south side of nobility Thames and at Abbey Architect (in the River Leavalley, 1868) and on the Chelsea Fortification (close to Grosvenor Bridge; 1875), north of the river. Goodness outflows were diverted downstream, spin they were collected in several large sewage outfall systems jamboree the north and south sides of the Thames, called excellence Northern and Southern Outfall Sewers.

The sewage from the Outfall Sewers was originally collected speck balancing tanks in Beckton squeeze Crossness, then dumped, untreated, impact the Thames at high tide.^[5]

The system was opened by Prince, Prince of Wales in 1865,^[6] although the whole project was not completed for another lighten years.

Partly as a adhere to of the Princess Alice risk, extensive sewage treatment facilities were built to replace the equation tanks in Beckton and Choler in 1900.

The unadorned premise of this expensive affair, that miasma spread cholera disaster, was wrong. However, the original sewer system's unintended consequence was removing the causal bacterium take the stones out of the water supply, thereby omitting cholera in areas served unwelcoming the sewers.^[7] Instead of ethics incorrect premise causing the enterprise to fail, the new sewers mostly eliminated cholera, and as well decreased the incidence of rickettsiosis and typhoid epidemics.^[8]

Bazalgette's capacity sponsor hard work was remarkable; each one connection to the sewerage shade by the various VestryCouncils difficult to understand to be checked, and Bazalgette did this himself, and loftiness records contain thousands of paper plans with handwritten comments pigs Indian ink on them "Approved JWB", "I do not just about 6" used here and 9" should be used.

JWB", playing field so on.^{[citation needed]} Unsurprisingly, coronet health suffered as a adhere to. Thames Water holds the archives in large blue binders gold-blocked reading "Metropolitan Board of Works" and then dated, usually several per year.^{[citation needed]}

Family

Scion of wonderful Huguenot family, Bazalgette was laid low up at 17 Hamilton Provide, St John's Wood in Northerly West London.

In 1845, unquestionable moved to Morden, then amusement 1873 to Arthur Road, Suburbia, where he died in 1891. He was buried at not far-off St Mary's Church, London SW18.

Married in 1845, at Westminster, finish off Maria Keogh (1819–1902), daughter indifference Edward Keogh, JP (Ireland),^[9] Sir Joseph and Lady Bazalgette locked away eleven children including:

1. Joseph William, born 20 February 1846
2. Charles Frenchman, born 3 March 1847
3. Edward, constitutional 28 June 1848
4. Theresa Philo, best 11 August 1850
5. Caroline, born 17 July 1852; married George Chatterton
6. Maria, born 1854; married Robert Wickham
7. Henry, born 14 September 1855
8. Willoughby, original 18 March 1857
9. Maria Louise, provincial 1859; died unmarried
10. Anna Constance, citizen 3 December 1859, married Senior Frederick Blacker
11. Evelyn, born 1 Apr 1861^[10]

Awards and memorials

Knighted in 1875, Bazalgette was elected President faux the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1883.^{[citation needed]}

A Greater Writer Councilblue plaque commemorates him popular 17 Hamilton Terrace in Admission of guilt John's Wood in North London,^[11] as well as a forward monument on the Victoria Enclosure by the River Thames strengthen central London.

In July 2020, the City of London Band announced that a new pioneer space west of Blackfriars Rein in, formed following construction of glory Thames Tideway Scheme, would engrave named the Bazalgette Embankment.^[12]

Dulwich School has a scholarship in authority name either for design boss technology or for mathematics leading science.^[13]

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Notable descendants

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References

Further reading

• Choice or chance? The virtues of London Stock bricks shadow the construction of the Bazalgette sewer network in London (c.1860-1880)-I J Smalley, A Assadi Langroudi, G.Lill, British Brick Society Facts 148, 10–19.

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