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.

Memorials

He lived for some years at 17 Hamilton Terrace, St John's Wood, north London, where there is now a blue plaque in his honour.

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St John's Wood - Blue plaque

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He later moved to Morden, then in 1873, with his wife, six sons and four daughters, to Arthur Road in Wimbledon, where he died in 1891, being buried in nearby St Mary's churchyard.

Related Topics:
Morden - 1873 - Wimbledon

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A formal monument (see photo above) on the riverside of the Victoria Embankment in central London commemorates Bazalgette's genius.

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