Nationality English Resting place Hampstead Cemetery | Role Civil engineer Name James Mansergh | |
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Born 29 April 1834 ( 1834-04-29 ) Lancaster, Lancashire Died June 15, 1905, Hampstead, United Kingdom Projects Elan aqueduct, Birmingham Water Supply Institution memberships Institution of Civil Engineers, British Standards Significant projects Claymills Pumping Station, Hury Reservoir | ||
Engineering discipline Civil Engineering | ||
James Mansergh FRS (29 Apr 1834 – 15 Jun 1905) was an English civil engineer.
Mansergh was born in Lancaster. He started his career in railway work and then designed many sewerage schemes and fresh water schemes.
His most famous projects were:
He was the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1900 to November 1901.
He became the chairman of the Engineering Standards Committee, when it was formed in 1901 from a combination of organizations, which later became the British Standards Institution. He served as High Sheriff of Radnorshire for 1901.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1901. His candidature citation read:
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Author of 'Lectures on Water Supply, Prospecting for Water, Prospecting and Boring' delivered at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, also of 'The Supply of Water to Towns,' and other works. The designer of the waterworks and sewerage of Lancaster, Lincoln, Stockton, Middlesbrough, Rotherham, Southport, Burton-on-Trent, Melbourne (Australia), Birmingham, and many other towns. These designs include some of the largest schemes of water supply, sewerage or sewage disposal for Halifax, Herford, St Helens, Darlington, Whitby, the Potteries, Derby, Southampton, Durham, Shrewsbury, Malvern, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Plymouth, York, Antigua, Philadelphia (US), and other places. Was a member of the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Water Supply. Eminent as a hydraulic engineer.
He died at 51 Fitzjohn's Avenue, Hampstead, London and was buried in Hampstead Cemetery.