John Bernard Hartley (1814–1869) was a British civil engineer, son of
Jesse Hartley the Liverpool docks engineer. He was engineer on the Hull
Railway Dock
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, and
Victoria Dock, and other works, and was instrumental in promoting the
Birkenhead Docks on the Mersey.
He retired in 1861 due to ill health and died in 1869.
Biography
John Bernard Hartley was born on 3 September in
Dungarvan
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, Waterford, son of
Jesse Hartley, engineer of the Liverpool docks. He was brought up in
Pontefract Yorkshire and educated at
Giggleswick school
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Early school
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, after which he began training under his father on the Liverpool dock estate, and in 1835 placed under
James Walker.
In 1840 he began working independently, and in 1842 was appointed engineer of the
Hull Dock Company
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. There he was engineer during the construction of the
Railway Dock
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Seaborne trade at the port can be traced to at least the 13th century, originally cond ...
and
Victoria Dock.
He left the employment of the Dock company in 1858.
He also worked on lighthouses on the
river Lune, at the mouth near
Morecambe bay, on the
Hull and Barnsley Railway,
The Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway, and on docks at
Purton Pill,
Silloth Bay, a graving dock at
Grimsby and scheme for docks at
Cardiff, and on the drainage of
Port Madoc. He was also worked on the docks at Liverpool and Birkenhead, in association with his father.
He was involved in prolonged attempts to obtain a bill enabling the construction of deep water docks at
Birkenhead to the design of
James Meadows Rendel
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, and later, in 1858, became engineer of the
Birkenhead Docks.
His health failed in 1860, and he had left for the warmer climate of the Mediterranean when he received news of his father's death. He was appointed to his father position on the Liverpool Docks estate, but retired due to poor health, being retained as a consulting engineer. He then lived at Letrualt House near
Rhu
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,
Dumbarton, also travelling to Spas in Switzerland – He died on 14 December 1869.
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1814 births
1869 deaths
Harbour engineers
English civil engineers
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