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Name
  
Herbert Bartlett

Role
  
Civil engineer


Died
  
June 23, 1921

Spouse
  
Ada Charlotte Barr

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Children
  
Hardington Arthur Bartlett

Grandchildren
  
Sir David Bartlett, 3rd Baronet, Basil Bartlett

Great grandchildren
  
Annabel McCall, Julia Atkinson, Lucy Bridgewater

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Sir Herbert Henry Bartlett, 1st Baronet (30 April 1842 – 23 June 1921) was a civil engineer and contractor responsible for many landmark buildings in London.

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Life

Born at Hardington Mandeville, he was chairman and managing director of Perry & Company, a civil engineering contractor, based in Bow, east London, with which he was associated for 59 years. He was made a Baronet in 1913.

He married Ada Charlotte Barr, and had several children. He lived from 1900 at Cornwall Gardens in west London.

He is buried in the family grave, which lies in the western half of Highgate Cemetery in north London on one of the main central paths.

On his death his baronetcy passed to his grandson, Basil, as his two eldest sons had predeceased him (Herbert Evelyn Barlett, 1875-1917, and Hardington Arthur Bartlett 1877-1920, lost at sea).

Memorials

The Bartlett, the Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London is named after him, as is the Bartlett Building at University College London. It was opened on 4 June 1920 to house Karl Pearson's Galton Eugenics Laboratory.

Notable works

Bartlett's contracts and designs included:

  • 30 St Mary Axe
  • the rebuilt Waterloo station
  • St Thomas' Hospital (his 1896 building was rebuilt in the 1970s)
  • improvements at Somerset House
  • various stations on the London Underground between Baker Street and Waterloo
  • part of Tower Bridge
  • He also assisted Ernest Shackleton fitting out his first expedition to the South Pole and was a keen yachtsman, being commodore of the Royal London Yacht Club.

    References

    Herbert Bartlett Wikipedia