Authorised form of name | Hawksley; Thomas (1807 - 1893); civil engineer |
Other forms of surname | Hawkesley |
Dates | 1807 - 1893 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Arnot Hill House, Arnold, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |
Date of birth | 12 July 1807 |
Place of death | His residence at 14 Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, London, England |
Date of death | 23 September 1893 |
Dates and places | Burial: Brookwood Cemetery, at Woking necropolis, Surrey, England (27 September 1893) |
Occupation | Civil engineer |
Research field | Mathematics |
Statistics |
Engineering |
Civil engineering |
Activity | Education: Nottingham High School; self taught Career: Articled to Edward Staveley, architect and surveyor of Nottingham (1822); became partner in the business, known as Staveley, Hawksley, and Jolland (until 1852); sngineered a scheme for additional water supply to Nottingham, for the Trent Waterworks Company (1830); engineer to the newly amalgamated Nottingham Waterworks Company (1845-1880); recommended and implemented the Rivington scheme in Liverpool (1846-1857); left for London setting up his own engineering practice in Westminster (1852); established partnership with his son Charles: T. and C. Hawksley (1866); Engineer-in-chief to Sheffield (1864-1893) and to water supply works at Liverpool (1874-1885). Memberships: MICE (1840; President 1872-1873); MIMechE (President); Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (President 1863-1866) |
Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 06/06/1878 |
Age at election | 71 |
Proposer | William Pole |
Edward Hull |
Robert Stirling Newall |
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher |
James Glaisher |
Warington Wilkinson Smith |
Edward Killwick Calver |
Thomas Sopwith |
David Forbes |
John Evans |
Frederick Joseph Bramwell |
Douglas Galton |
Charles Watkins Merrifield |
Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Frederick Augustus Abel |
David Thomas Ansted |
Edward William Cooke |
Charles William Siemens |
John Hawkshaw |
Eras Ommanney |
William Newmarch |
John Hall Gladstone |
Relationships | Parents: John Hawksley, manufacturer, and Mary Whittle. Spouse: 1) Phillos, daughter of Francis Wright of Nottinghamshire (died 1854); 2) (1855) Eliza, daughter of J Litt Children: Charles Hawksley |
General context | Associated with water supply engineering projects, including schemes for Liverpool, Sheffield, Leicester, Leeds, Derby, Darlington, Oxford, Cambridge, Sunderland, Wakefield, and Northampton. Completed the Trent Bridge waterworks in 1831, delivering Britain's first high pressure "constant supply" water mains. Involved in drainage projects including schemes for Birmingham, Worcester, and Windsor. Advocated chemical treatment of sewage. Designed schemes abroad,such as gasworks in Bombay and Denmark, and waterworks in Stockholm, Altona, and Vienna. Has a keen interest in statistics. |
Sources | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1894 vol 55 pp xvi-xvii signed by W P |
Royal Society code | NA6160 |
Reference number | Title | Date |
EC/1878/10 | Hawksley, Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
NLB/8/299 | Copy letter from the Clerk [Theodore E James], to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 25 September 1893 |
NLB/5/1042 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Thomas Hawksley, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 December 1891 |
NLB/5/1128 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to W J Davey, 30 Great George Street, Westminster, S.W. | 7 January 1892 |
NLB/18/133 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Mrs Musgrave, Crockham House, Eden Bridge, Kent | 20 January 1899 |
MC/17 | Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1897-1899 |