Henry Marc Brunel

Henry Marc Brunel (27 June 1842 – 7 October 1903) was an English civil engineer and the son of the celebrated engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and grandson of civil engineer Marc Isambard Brunel.

Henry Marc Brunel
Born
Henry Marc Brunel

(1842-06-27)June 27, 1842
Westminster, London, England
DiedNovember 7, 1903(1903-11-07) (aged 61)
Westminster, London, England
NationalityEnglish
OccupationCivil Engineer
Years active1861 - c.1903
Parents
RelativesMarc Isambard Brunel (paternal grandfather)

Henry Marc Brunel was born in Westminster, London on June 26th 1842, the second son of the celebrated engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Elizabeth Mary Horsley. He decided to follow his father and grandfather's footsteps by becoming a civil engineer. Brunel attended King's College London from 1859–1861, and then gained experience in civil engineering through serving out various apprenticeships. He helped take down his father's Hungerford Bridge with Sir John Hawkshaw so the chains are now at Clifton Suspension Bridge. He conducted initial surveys for a Channel Tunnel. He developed an interest in acting as a hobby, becoming a member of the Scientific and Amateur Dramatic Societies, and also contributed to his brother's biography of their father.[1]

Henry is noted for a partnership from 1878 with Sir John Wolfe Barry, with whom he designed the Blackfriars Railway Bridge and the famous Tower Bridge [2] after Sir Horace Jones over the River Thames in central London. Their other works included the docks at Barry in south Wales and the Creagan Bridge, a railway bridge over the narrows of Loch Creran in Scotland (jointly credited to Wolfe Barry, Brunel and E.M. Crutwell). Sir Alexander Gibb was a pupil of Brunel and Wolfe Barry in 1895.

He also designed the SS Chauncy Maples, which was built in Glasgow in 1899 and transported overland to Lake Nyasa in Africa, where it served for more than one hundred years as a mission and hospital clinic.

Brunel is buried with his father, grandfather, and other family members at Kensal Green Cemetery in London.

References
  1. Brunel, Isambard (1870). The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer. London, UK: Longmans, Green, and Co. ISBN 1293935212.
  2. Portman Derek (2004) Henry Marc Brunel: Civil Engineer https://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/Downloads/chs/final-chs-vol.20/chs-vol.20-pp.71-to-83.pdf Cambridge, UK Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
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