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Joseph Bazalgette

1819 - 1891

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Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB (; 28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was a British civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1858) of a sewerage system for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Bazalgette has received more than 831,891 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Bazalgette is the 305th most popular engineer, the 4,338th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 33rd most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Joseph Bazalgette ranks 305 out of 323. Before him are John R. Pierce, Franciszek Rychnowski, Yaakov Ziv, Aldo Costa, Mario Theissen, and Yahya Ayyash. After him are Ove Arup, Willy Ley, Georgy Babakin, Hesham Qandil, Kevin Warwick, and Leon O. Chua.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Joseph Bazalgette ranks 87. Before him are James Spriggs Payne, Ion Emanuel Florescu, Joaquín Jovellar y Soler, Cyrus West Field, Alexandru G. Golescu, and William Rosecrans. After him are Alexander Melville Bell, Henry Tate, George Salmon, Monier Monier-Williams, and John W. Geary. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph Bazalgette ranks 96. Before him are Alphonso Taft, Pierre de Decker, George Bancroft, Emma Abbott, Charles Bradlaugh, and Barbara Bodichon. After him are George Hearst, Ludvig Lorenz, Sarah Winnemucca, and William Windom.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bazalgette ranks 4,338 out of 7,765. Before him are Duffy (1984), Frederick Grace (1884), Gerald Scarfe (1936), Ian McLagan (1945), Benjamin Wilson (1721), and Martin Litchfield West (1937). After him are Frank Swift (1913), Vincent Regan (1965), Gertrude Lawrence (1898), Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536), Thomas Campbell (1777), and Victor Johnson (1883).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bazalgette ranks 33. Before him are Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), Jesse Ramsden (1735), Isaac Roberts (1829), R. J. Mitchell (1895), and Christopher Cockerell (1910). After him are Ove Arup (1895), Kevin Warwick (1954), Pat Symonds (1953), Pat Fry (1964), Tommy Flowers (1905), and Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893).

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