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Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, KCMG, LLD, FRSE (15 July 1817 – 20 November 1898) was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure.
Jul 11, 2024 · Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet (born July 15, 1817, Wadsley, near Sheffield, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Nov. 20, 1898, Bournemouth, Hampshire) was an English civil engineer who helped design and build the underground London Metropolitan Railway and was joint designer of the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
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Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, lived from 15 July 1817 to 10 November 1898. He was a railway engineer best known as one of the designers of the Forth Bridge. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, KCMG, LLD, FRSE (15 July 1817 – 20 November 1898) was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure.
Pretitle: Sir. Forenames: John. Gender: Male. Date: 1817-1898. Title: 1st Baronet. Biography: ODNB link for Fowler, Sir John (1817-1898) 1st Baronet Civil Engineer. Name authority...
Biography. British civil engineer, associated with the expansion of Britain's rail network in the mid 19thC; designer of the Forth railway bridge (completed 1890); president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1865; knighted in 1885.
Sep 11, 2023 · Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet KCMG LLD was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure. In the 1850s and 1860s, he was engineer for the world's first underground railway, London's Metropolitan Railway, built by the "cut-and-cover" method under city streets.
