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Entry Type	Person
Surname	Vignoles
Forenames	Charles Blacker
Epithet	Civil engineer
Dates	1793-1875
Gender Identity	Male
Biography	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.
Relationships	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.
Source	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online); Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles, by Olinthus J. Vignoles, 1889 (online)
Authorised Form of Name	Vignoles; Charles Blacker (1793-1875); Civil engineer

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