Thomas Hawksley

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Thomas Hawksley

Thomas Hawksley (born July 12, 1807 in Arnold , Nottinghamshire, † September 15, 1893 in Kensington (London) ) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century who was particularly concerned with water supply.

He was the son of John Hawksley and Mary Whittle and was born in Arnold near Nottingham on July 12, 1807. Hawksley was largely self-taught from the age of 15 , since joining a local architectural firm that also worked on a variety of water supply projects.

He remained particularly attached to a large number of plants in his home country. He was an engineer with the Nottingham Gas Light and Coke Company and Nottingham Public Utilities for more than half a century, completing the Trent Bridge Waterworks (1831) early in his career. This system was Britain's first high pressure water supply. It prevented contamination from entering the pipe network.

That success led him to be hired on many major water supply projects across England, including facilities in Liverpool , Sheffield , Leicester , Leeds , Derby , Darlington , Oxford , Cambridge , Sunderland , Wakefield and Northampton . He has also carried out drainage projects , including in Birmingham , Worcester and Windsor .

In 1852 Hawksley set up his own engineering company in Westminster, London. He was the first President of the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (three years from 1863), a member of the Royal Society , and was elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1871 (a position his son Charles later held in 1901). From 1876 to 1877 he was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers .

Between 1869 and 1879 Hawksley worked as a consultant on the construction of the Lindley Wood , Swinsty and Fewston reservoirs for the Leeds Water Company.

He died in Kensington , London in 1893 and is buried in his family grave in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. In December 2007 a granite memorial was erected on his previously unmarked grave.

Thomas Hawksley was the first in four generations of outstanding urban water management engineers, followed by his son Charles Hawksley , his grandson Kenneth Phipson Hawksley, and his great-grandson Thomas Edwin Hawksley († 1972). The Institution of Mechanical Engineers still holds an annual lecture in his honor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMechE biography , accessed on December 29, 2012
  2. ↑ Nottingham Water Supply ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - History, accessed December 29, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.papplewickpumpingstation.co.uk
  3. ↑ IGEM History
  4. ↑ Royal Society list of fellows ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 29, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.royalsoc.ac.uk
  5. ^ Garth Watson: The Civils, Ed .: Thomas Telford Ltd, p. 251, London 1988, ISBN 0-7277-0392-7
  6. ↑ Harold D. Bowtell, Lesser Railways of the Yorkshire Dales and the Dam Builders in the Age of Steam, Ed. Plateway Press, 1991, ISBN 1-871980-09-7
  7. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxforddnb.com. accessed on December 29, 2012.
  8. ↑ Brookwood Cemetery press release ( July 8, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ), Brookwood Cemetery, December 10, 2007, Brookwoodcemetery.blogspot.com, accessed August 27, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Hawksley, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English civil engineer and urban water management specialist, especially water supply
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnold (Nottinghamshire)
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1893
Place of death Kensington (London)