Name Leveson Vernon-Harcourt Role Author | Died 1907 | |
Books Harbours and Docks: Their Phy, Achievements in engineeri, A Treatise on Rivers and Cana, Civil Engineering as Applie, Rivers and Canals | ||
Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839–1907) was a British civil engineer, author of several treatises on river and harbour engineering.
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Biography
Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt was the son of Admiral Frederick Edward Vernon-Harcourt (1790–1883), a descendant of the Barons Vernon, and his wife, née Marcia Tollemache (?-1868). His elder brother was the chemist Augustus George Vernon Harcourt.
In 1870 he married Alice Brandreth, daughter of Lt. Col. Henry Rowland Brandreth FRS, by whom he had four children of which three succeeded him. His daughter, Evelyn Alice, married the writer Arthur Clutton-Brock in 1903.
He died in 1907, at Swanage.
Work
He specialised in canal and harbour engineering. He was a pioneer in the use of scale models to predict the impact of man made structures in tidal waters, and was an active contributor to the Institute of Civil Engineers, and the author of several books on civil engineering.
His career included acting as resident engineer for an extension to the West India Docks, London under John Hawkshaw, during the 1860s; superintendent of works at Braye Harbour, and construction of a pier at Rosslare. After 1874 he acted as a consultant engineer, and in 1882 was appointed professor of civil engineering at University College London.