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Joseph Bazalgette

1819 - 1891

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Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB (; 28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was an English civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of the London Main Drainage, the sewerage system for central London, in response to the Great Stink of 1858, which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames. He later designed the second and current Hammersmith Bridge, which opened in 1887. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Bazalgette is the 295th most popular engineer (up from 318th in 2019), the 4,022nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,245th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Joseph Bazalgette ranks 295 out of 389. Before him are Fulgence Bienvenüe, Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, William Froude, Hideo Itokawa, Burt Rutan, and Viktor Kozin. After him are Ron Tauranac, Markus Reiner, Frederick Terman, Alan Shugart, Georgy Langemak, and Percy Hobart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Joseph Bazalgette ranks 86. Before him are Louise Otto-Peters, Julia Ward Howe, Jean-Augustin Barral, James Spriggs Payne, José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, and Charles Piazzi Smyth. After him are George Salmon, Ion Emanuel Florescu, Narcyza Żmichowska, William Powell Frith, William Muir, and Alexandru G. Golescu. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph Bazalgette ranks 101. Before him are Constantine Paparrigopoulos, Antonio Arenas, Joseph Roumanille, Anton Heinrich Springer, Calixa Lavallée, and George Washington Williams. After him are George Bancroft, Henry Litolff, José María Urvina, Charles Bradlaugh, Giovanni Caselli, and Edwin Long.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bazalgette ranks 4,023 out of 8,785. Before him are Charlie Whiting (1952), Tony Benn (1925), William Townsend Aiton (1766), Ian McNeice (1950), Peter Scott (1909), and G. M. Trevelyan (1876). After him are Edward John Eyre (1815), Robert H. McNaught (1956), James Donald (1917), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Shakespeare (1530), and Ernest Henry Wilson (1876).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bazalgette ranks 28. Before him are William Playfair (1759), André Waterkeyn (1917), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), James B. Francis (1815), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), and William Froude (1810). After him are Ron Tauranac (1925), Robert W. Paul (1869), Mal Evans (1935), Ralph Bagnold (1896), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), and Ove Arup (1895).

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