Person Hawksley; Thomas (1807 - 1893); civil engineer Hawksley Thomas civil engineer Hawkesley 1807 - 1893 British Male Arnot Hill House, Arnold, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England 12 July 1807 18070712 His residence at 14 Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, London, England 23 September 1893 18930923 Burial: Brookwood Cemetery, Woking necropolis, Surrey, England (27 September 1893)

30 Great George Street, London (1876)

Civil engineer Mathematics Statistics Engineering Civil engineering 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) 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 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. Fellow 06/06/1878 71 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 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1894 vol 55 pp xvi-xvii signed by W P International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 12 Jul 1807 - 23 Sep 1893 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 29/08/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA6160 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 06/05/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes 72b3182a-ace5-4d76-b62a-0d30bbb668c0