Fowler, John, Sir, 1817-1898

LC control no.	n 84805192
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Fowler, John, Sir, 1817-1898 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Great Britain England
Located	London (England) Braemore (Scotland)
Birth date	1817-07-15
Death date	1898-11-20
Place of birth	Sheffield (England)
Place of death	Bournemouth (England)
Field of activity	Railroad engineering Civil engineering
Affiliation	Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) Royal Society of Edinburgh Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company East Lincolnshire Railway Company Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway British Association for the Advancement of Science. Mechanical Sciences Section
Profession or occupation	Civil engineers
Found in	LCCN 01-27170: Mackay, T. The life of Sir John Fowler, 1900 (hdg.: Fowler, Sir John, bart., 1817-1898) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography WWW site, viewed February 7, 2020 (Fowler, Sir John, first baronet (1817-1898); civil engineer; born in Sheffield on July 15, 1817; in 1837 he began working for John Urpeth Rastrick on various railway schemes and later acted as resident engineer on the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway; when the line opened in March 1841 he was appointed engineer to the company; he established his practice in the Yorkshire-Lincolnshire area; in 1844, with an increasing volume of professional work, he moved to London; many of his schemes became absorbed in the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, of which he became chief engineer; he was also engineer to the East Lincolnshire Railway; in March 1852 he was appointed engineer to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway; in 1853 he secured parliamentary assent for the North Metropolitan Line between Edgware Road and King's Cross and was also the engineer for the Metropolitan District Line; he was one of the designers and engineers of the Forth railway bridge; following its completion, on April 17, 1890, he was created a baronet, having already been knighted in 1885 for his services in Egypt and the Sudan; he was consulted by the Khedive about a number of engineering schemes, which involved the most accurate survey of Upper Egypt and the Sudan then available; in 1884 he lent his maps to the British government to assist in the relief of Khartoum, and was rewarded by being made KCMG; he was a consultant to New South Wales railways and advised on railway schemes in Algeria, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, and the United States; he was consultant to an Indian government inquiry in 1870 into railway gauges; he became president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1865; he was also president of the mechanical sciences section of the British Association in 1882; he died at High Cliffe Hotel, Bournemouth, on November 20, 1898) Wikipedia, viewed February 7, 2020 (Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet; KCMG, LLD, FRSE; English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure; he became a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1847, and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1849; he was President of the Egyptian Exploration Fund; in 1887 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh in 1890 for his engineering of the Forth railway bridge; he was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant of Ross-shire, where he owned an estate at Braemore)
Associated language	eng