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Authorised form of nameHawksley; Thomas (1807 - 1893); civil engineer
Other forms of surnameHawkesley
Dates1807 - 1893
NationalityBritish
Place of birthArnot Hill House, Arnold, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Date of birth12 July 1807
Place of deathHis residence at 14 Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, London, England
Date of death23 September 1893
Dates and placesBurial: Brookwood Cemetery, at Woking necropolis, Surrey, England (27 September 1893)
OccupationCivil engineer
Research fieldMathematics
Statistics
Engineering
Civil engineering
ActivityEducation:
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 categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1878
Age at election71
ProposerWilliam 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
RelationshipsParents: 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 contextAssociated 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.
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1894 vol 55 pp xvi-xvii signed by W P
Royal Society codeNA6160
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1878/10Hawksley, Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/8/299Copy letter from the Clerk [Theodore E James], to Messrs Harrison & Sons25 September 1893
NLB/5/1042Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Thomas Hawksley, Fellow of the Royal Society18 December 1891
NLB/5/1128Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to W J Davey, 30 Great George Street, Westminster, S.W.7 January 1892
NLB/18/133Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Mrs Musgrave, Crockham House, Eden Bridge, Kent20 January 1899
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
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