Nationality British Religion Quaker | Profession engineer | |
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Died 2 April 1832, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
Santiago Bevans (1777-1832) was an English engineer. In 1822 was hired by the Argentine government to take over the water system of Buenos Aires.
Biography
Bevans was born in London, England, had arrived in the port of Buenos Aires on November 2, 1822, in company of his wife Priscilla Bright and family. He had been hired by Bernardino Rivadavia. In 1823 it presents three projects for the port of the city, which consisted in form a dock of thirty-three acres. That same year he ends the works of gas lighting of the Plaza de la Victoria (now Plaza de Mayo).
His daughter María Bevans Bright, was married to Charles Henri Pellegrini, (born in Chambery) being the parents of the future Argentine president Carlos Pellegrini.
References
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