John Hawkshaw
1811–91
Civil engineer. In charge of the Bolivar Mining Association’s mines in Venezuela, 1832–4. Engineer to the Manchester and Leeds Railway, 1845–88. Practised as a consulting engineer in London from 1850; from 1870 in partnership with his son Clarke and with Harrison Hayter. One of the foremost civil engineers of the nineteenth century. Knighted, 1873. FRS 1855.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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