Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell, 1st Baronet FRS FRSA (17 March 1818 – 30 November 1903) was a British civil and

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. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873 and served as president of the

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between December 1884 and May 1886 and the president of the

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in 1888. He was

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in 1881 and created a

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on 25 January 1889. Bramwell trained as an engineer and studied steam propulsion. In 1843 he constructed a locomotive for the

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; set up his own business concentrating on legal and consultative work (1853). He was the first engineer to practise as a technical advocate and later was adviser to the London water companies.

Family

He was the son of George Bramwell, a partner in Dorrien and Co. Bankers, and his wife Harriet, and the younger brother of Sir George William Wilshere Bramwell. He married on 29 March 1847, Harriet Leonara Frith (his cousin), daughter of Joseph Frith. There were three daughters to the marriage,''1881 England census'' Class: RG11; Piece: 22; Folio: 67; Page: 61; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341005. with Eldred marrying the scientist, Sir Victor Horsley. Bramwell died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 30 November 1903, in London, and was buried at Hever, Kent.

Works

* '' Our big guns'' (1886, address to the Birmingham and Midland Institute) from his work as a civilian member of the Ordnance Committee.

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* * * 1818 births 1903 deaths British mechanical engineers Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers Presidents of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers Fellows of the Royal Society Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Presidents of the British Science Association Knights Bachelor {{UK-engineer-stub