User:Ephebi
User:Ephebi
Interests: Victoriana,Middle Easthistory,Industrial archaeology,Building,Civil engineeringand historiccivil engineers,South London,Biographiesrelating toWest Norwood Cemetery. I also edit some areas where I have professional experience, for WP at the moment this is notably in the areas aroundcarbon trading,transportation planning/transport economics,&technology
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Materials:
[edit]Victorian builders of the modern world
[edit]Civil engineers buried in WNC:
- George Henry Andrews:railway surveyor & artist
- Captain Samuel BrownRN?: chains & suspension bridges
- Richard Henry Brunton:Japanese lighthouses & plasterwork
- SirGeorge Buchanan (engineer):harbours
- Alfred Burges:docks, lighthouses, roads, bridges & railways
- SirHenry Bessemer:steel process
- SirWilliam Cubitt:bridges viaducts, canals, Crystal Palace
- William Carpmael:Cheshire saltworks, Metropolitan Board of Works
- George Drysdale Dempsey,railways & author of civil engineering studies
- SirRobert Francis Fairlie:railways & railway engines
- Joshua Field:co-founded ICE, ships' blocks
- James Henry Greathead:tunnelling & London Underground
- Henry Grissell:Regents Canal Iron Foundry, Buck Palace
- John William Grover:UK & Venez. railways, Albert Hl, waterworks
- John Hughes:ironmaster of Hughesovska
- Richard Reader Harris:UK & Bolivian railways, barrister, evangelist
- SirJohn Jackson MP:marine works
- Robert Mallet:railways, bridges & seismology
- Joseph Maudsley:marine steam engines & screws withJoshua Field
- William Mills:Snr engineer of London, Chatham & Dover Railway
- Thomas Sopwith (geologist):French railways & mining
- John Webster (engineer):piers, bascule & suspension bridges
- Alfred Williams:gasworks at Crystal palace, Bromley, Croydon
- Robert Wingate:Canada, Russia, Hungarian, Uraguay railways
- Alexander Wright:Western Gas Light Co, gaslights in mines
Architects interred in WNC (also seeBritish architects):
- Charles Baily:assistant to City of London architect
- John Belcher:architect of London buildings & Colchester
- William Burges (architect):son ofAlfred Burges
- Thomas Talbot Bury:churches & watercolour painter
- John Jenkins Cole:architect to Stock Exchange
- Henry Currey:RIBA pres, St Thomas', Buxton Pump Room
- Charles Henry Driver:Crossness, railway stations
- Philip Mainwaring Johnston:churches, Great War memorials
- SirHorace Jones:architect to the City of London
- James KnowlesSnr: Grosvenor Hotel at Victoria Stn, Cintra
- Arthur Beresford Pite:Director, LCC School of Building
- SirWilliam TiteMP: Gothic railway stations & cemeteries
- Ebenezer Trotman:railways, principal assistant to Tite
- James Wier:nonconformist churches & Westinghouse Brake Co
- William Huff Wontner:Holland & Sons furniture designer
Architects & designers who worked on WNC:
- SirWilliam TiteMP: see above
- Thomas AllomGII forGeorge DoddMP
- Anderson & McKenzie,scuptors, John Stevens' GII obelisk
- Edward Middleton BarryGII templeRalli& GII* Berens
- William BurgesGII*Alfred Burges
- George Godwinarchitectural journalist, GII*John Britton
- John Oldrid ScottGII* St Stephen's Greek Orthodox Chapel
- George Edmund StreetGII*JP Ralli&St Luke's
- Robert Stark Wilkinson,architect, GIIHenry Doulton
Construction & materials
- John Marriott Blashfield:mosaic & terracotta manufacturer
- Paul Emile Chappuis:daylight reflectors & diffractors
- Joseph Bernard Clark:ornamental fibrous plasterer
- Benjamin Colls&William Abraham Colls:contractors
- John Dibblee Crace,fatherJohn,g-fatherFrederick:architectural decorator, Brighton Pavilion, Houses of Parliamant
- Thomas Cubitt:builder of Belgravia & Buckingham Palace
- Charles Larkin Francis:early cement manufacturer
- Christopher Gabriel& sonSir ThomasLord Mayor: timber merchant
- John George Hammack:timber merchant, surveyor to City of London
- William Higgs:contractor, Nat His Museum, Spurgeon's Tabernacle
- George Jennings:Sanitary works, rubber taps, Scutari hospital
- George Myers:contractor for many of Pugin's works
- Frederick Nettlefold:wood screws & fixings
- John Oakey:sandpaper
- Frederick Ransome:artificial sandstone, slag & lime cement
- James John Stevens& son John: railway signals & gaslights
- Tredwell Brothers:John & Thomas, railway contractors
Electrical engineers
- Alexander Muirhead:telegraphy & electrocardiogram
- James Wimshurst:shipwright surveyor, electrostatics
- John George Appold:Fen drainage & 1st Transatlantic cable
- John Peter Gassiot:voltaic batteries, vacuum tubes & Kew observatory