1. Sir John Hawkshaw FRS FRSE FRSA MICE, was an English civil engineer.
14 Facts About John Hawkshaw
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John Hawkshaw was developing copper mines at Aroa in the west of the newly independent country.
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John Hawkshaw soon obtained employment under Jesse Hartley at the Liverpool docks, and subsequently was made engineer in charge of the railway and navigation works of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Company.
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The construction of canals was another branch of engineering in which John Hawkshaw was actively engaged.
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John Hawkshaw was chosen to make the inquiry, and it was because his report was entirely favourable that Ferdinand de Lesseps was able to say at the opening ceremony that to him he owed the canal.
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John Hawkshaw was engineer, with Sir James Brunlees, of the original Channel Tunnel Company from 1872, but many years previously he had investigated for himself the question of a tunnel under the Strait of Dover from an engineering point of view, and had come to a belief in its feasibility, so far as that could be determined from borings and surveys.
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John Hawkshaw was consulting engineer to the Severn Tunnel, which, from its magnitude and the difficulties encountered in its construction, was one of the most notable engineering undertakings of the 19th century.
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John Hawkshaw designed the famous Puerto Madero, the port of Buenos Aires, collaborating with Thomas A Walker and James Murray Dobson.
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John Hawkshaw is known for his construction of the Brighton sewerage system.
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Ann and John Hawkshaw had six children: Mary Jane Jackson, Ada, John Hawkshaw Clarke, who was a civil engineer, Henry Paul, Editha, and Oliver.
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John Hawkshaw was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1855.
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John Hawkshaw's proposers were David Stevenson, James Leslie, Thomas Stevenson and Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin.
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John Hawkshaw served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between December 1861 and December 1863.
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John Hawkshaw was elected an honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1880.