Joseph Bazalgette

Sir Joseph Bazalgette
Born
Joseph William Bazalgette

(1819-03-28)28 March 1819
Died15 March 1891(1891-03-15) (aged 71)
OccupationCivil engineer
Spouse
Maria Keogh
(m. 1845)
Children10

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB (/ˈbæzəlɛt/; 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 a 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.[1] He later designed Hammersmith Bridge.

  1. ^ Halliday, Stephen (2013). The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis. The History Press. ISBN 978-0752493787.