Person DS/UK/2362 Vignoles; Charles Blacker (1793-1875); Civil engineer Vignoles Charles Blacker 1793-1875 Civil engineer Male

Educated at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, where his grandfather taught; having failed to carry on the legal career wanted by his grandfather, he took on his father's profession of soldier. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars he became a civil engineer and surveyor wroking in the Americas before returning to England in 1823. He continued working as a civil engineer and surveyor, becoming especially involved in the rapidly expanding business of the building of railways. He worked on Midland Counties Railway 1835-1840 linking Derby to Rugby, including the bridge at Sawley, and on Woodhead Tunnel. Of Huguenot stock; son of Charles Henry Vignoles and his wife Camilla (nee Hudson); his father died young so he was brought up by his grandfather Dr Charles Hutton, mathematician lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online); Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles, by Olinthus J. Vignoles, 1889 (online) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes A7003503 17/08/2016 DERBYSHIRE\71026502 25/11/2019 81cf7b70-55d1-4394-bc98-ded3efc428b9