Gilbert Blount collection 1837-1849
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Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 1806-1859
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel (born 9 April 1806, Portsmouth, England-died 15 September 1859, Westminster, London, England), English civil engineer. He built dockyards, the Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship, and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering....
Blount, Gilbert R. ., 1819-1876
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Gilbert Blount was an English Catholic architect born in 1819 and active from about 1840-70. He received his earliest training as a civil engineer under Isambard Kingdom Brunel (c.1825-28) for whom he worked as a superintendent of the Thames Tunnel works. After a period in the office of Sydney Smirke, Blount was appointed as architect to Cardinal Wiseman, the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster. Blount's mature work coincided with the resurgence of Catholic church buildin...
Charlier, Joseph
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Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick, 1802-1865
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Cardinal, priest and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster; Syrian scholar. From the description of Nicholas Wiseman letter to Henry Edward Manning, 1857 April 27. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 76968867 Nicholas Patrick Cardinal Wiseman was born on August 2, 1802 in Ireland. As a young man he studied in Rome and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1825. In 1835 he moved from Europe to England and began to encourage the revival of English Catholicism. I...
Thames Tunnel Company
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Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877
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Architect. From the description of Autograph order signed : 24 Berkeley Square. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664504 English architect. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to "Dear Sir", ca. 1856 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270663277 ...
May, Michael, 1956-....
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