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Authorised form of nameLocke; Joseph (1805 - 1860)
Dates1805 - 1860
NationalityBritish
Place of birthAttercliffe, near Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth09 August 1805
Place of deathMoffat, near Dumfries, Dumfries-shire
Date of death18 September 1860
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Kensal Green cemetery, London
OccupationCivil engineer
ActivityMemberships:
MICE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election22/02/1838
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1860-1862 vol 11 pp ix-x
References:
A P Woolrich, 'Engineering Myths', review of Denis Smith, ed, Perceptions of Great Engineers: Fact and Fantasy in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 340-341
Notes:
"Institution" inserted in a different hand as a correction for "Society"
CodeNA7264
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1838/15Locke, Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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