About Frederick Bramwell
Lived 1818 – 1903 (aged 85). Frederick Bramwell was a British civil engineer and engineer.
Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell, 1st Baronet FRS FRSA (17 March 1818 – 30 November 1903) was a British civil and mechanical engineer. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873 and served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between December 1884 and May 1886 and the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1888. He was knighted in 1881 and created a baronet on 25 January 1889. 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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Who was Frederick Bramwell?
British civil and mechanical engineer
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Frederick Bramwell was born on 17 March 1818 in London.
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Frederick Bramwell died on 30 November 1903 in London.
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Frederick Bramwell was a civil engineer and engineer.
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