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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