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He was born in Enfield, the son of a captain in the Royal Navy and grandson of a French immigrant, and began his career working on railway projects articled to noted engineer Sir John MacNeillSir John Benjamin Macneill ( 1792/ 3 2 March 1880) was an eminent Irish civil engineer of the 19th century, closely associated with Thomas Telford. His most notable projects were railway schemes in Ireland and Northern Ireland he was born close to the pre and gaining sufficient experience (some in Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland is the smallest of the Home Nations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland lies in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It covers 14,139 square kilometres (5,459 square miles), and has a populati) in land drainage and reclamationLand reclamation is either of two distinct practices. Both involve modifying a land area into a desired state. However, one often involves restoring the land to a more natural state while the other is by definition a major change from the area's natural s works for him to set up his own London consulting practice in 1842. In 1849, he joined the Metropolitan Sewers Commission.
Championed by fellow engineer Isambard Kingdom BrunelIsambard Kingdom Brunel ( April 9, 1806 September 15, 1859) was a British engineer, noted for the creation of the Great Western Railway and a series of famous steamships. The Thames Tunnel The son of noted engineer Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, Isambard K., Bazalgette was then appointed chief engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1856Events January 8 Borax is discovered ( John Veatch). January 29 Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross February 18 The American Party ( Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former Presi (a post he retained until the MBW was abolished and replaced by the London County CouncilCounty of London, shown within a map of England's 1890 counties London County Council (LCC was the principal local government body for the County of London from 1889 until 1965, when it was replaced by the Greater London Council. It covered the area today in 1889Events January-April January 8 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. February 11 Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 January 30 ? Crown). His appointment came after a cholera epidemic had killed over 10,000 people in central London ( 1853Events January 19 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome January 21 Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope folding machine January 29 Napoleon III marries the Spanish Countess Eugenie at the Tuileries March 4 Inauguration of US president Fra- 54). In 1858 Parliament passed an enabling act and Bazalgette's designs began to be implemented.