Joseph Bazalgette

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was one of the great Victorian civil engineers. As the chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network for central London that helped relieve the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning the clean-up of the River Thames that had reached a nadir with "The Great Stink" of 1858.

Descendants

Peter Bazalgette (great-great-grandson).

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"Joseph Bazalgette's great-great-grandson is Peter Bazalgette. a television producer at the company Endemol in the late 20th and early 21st century, responsible for the British version of Big Brother, also various food and DIY programmes including Ready Steady Cook and Changing Rooms".

Related Topics:
Peter Bazalgette - Endemol - British - Big Brother - Ready Steady Cook - Changing Rooms

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If this belongs in Wikipedia at all, it should be in a cross-referenced entry for Peter B. The names of shows are perhaps not relevant in an encyclopedia, being of ephemeral interest and more suitable for a Who's Who type publication?

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