Charles Jones (engineer)

Charles Jones
CitizenshipEnglish
ChildrenAt least 3 sons
Engineering career
DisciplineCivil engineering
Employer(s)Thames and Severn Canal Company, Basingstoke Canal Company
ProjectsSapperton Tunnel, Greywell Tunnel

Charles Jones (fl. 1773 – c. 1796) was an English civil engineer, working primarily on canal tunnels. Despite Jones's extensive career working with prominent engineers (such as John Rennie, William Jessop and Josiah Clowes) on many waterways, he gained a reputation of unreliability and inability, and was dismissed from a number of projects.[1]

  1. ^ Skempton, A W (2002). A biographical dictionary of civil engineers in Great Britain and Ireland. Thomas Telford. p. 378. ISBN 9780727729392.