Alfred Burges (1796–1886) was a British civil engineer. He was apprenticed to the civil engineer James Walker, and in turn trained several other engineers including Sir

Joseph Bazalgette Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB (; 28 March 181915 March 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1 ...

. Walker and Burges were responsible for railways, bridges and many marine works, including 21 lighthouses,

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, the Junction Dock at Hull, and the Bedford Levels. Their firm is noted in many documents as ''Messrs. Walker & Burgess'', engineers of Limehouse, with his last name being almost always spelt in this way. He died at

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on 12 March 1886, and is buried at

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. He left a fortune of £113,000.(£ in adjusted for inflation) His son

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(1827–1881) was an influential architect.

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* * British civil engineers 1796 births 1886 deaths Burials at West Norwood Cemetery {{england-bio-stub