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Henry Marc Brunel

1842 – 1903

British engineer

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Lived 1842 – 1903 (aged 61). Henry Marc Brunel was a British civil engineer and engineer.

Henry Marc Brunel (27 June 1842 – 7 October 1903) was an English civil engineer and the son of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and grandson of civil engineer Marc Isambard Brunel best known for his design work on Tower Bridge built in partnership with Sir John Wolfe Barry.

Early life and education Henry Marc Brunel, known as Henry, was born in Westminster, London, on 27 June 1842, the second son of the celebrated engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Elizabeth Mary Horsley.

Brunel is noted for a partnership from 1878 with Sir John Wolfe Barry, with whom he designed the Blackfriars Railway Bridge and (after Sir Horace Jones died) Tower Bridge over the River Thames in central London. The profit share in the partnership demonstrated Barry's leadership of the new firm with Brunel being limited to 10% of the partnership's net profit up to a gross income of £4,500 per annum. He is buried with his father, grandfather, and other family members at Kensal Green Cemetery in London.

Brunel neither married nor had children and was the last of the Brunel engineering dynasty.

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Who was Henry Marc Brunel?

British engineer (1842-1903)

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Henry Marc Brunel was born on 27 June 1842 in Westminster.

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Henry Marc Brunel died on 7 October 1903 in London, Westminster.

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Henry Marc Brunel was a civil engineer and engineer.

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Henry Marc Brunel was British.

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· Wikidata: Q5725440

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