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See also:HARTLEY, See also:SIR See also:CHARLES See also:AUGUSTUS (1825– ) , See also:English engineer, was See also:born in 1825 at Heworth, See also:Durham. Like most See also:engineers of his See also:generation he was engaged in railway See also:work in the See also:early See also:part of his career, but subsequently he devoted himself to See also:hydraulic See also:engineering and the improvement of estuaries and harbours for the purposes of See also:navigation. He was employed in connexion with some of the largest and most important See also:water-ways of the See also:world. After serving in the See also:Crimea as a See also:captain of engineers in the Anglo-See also:Turkish contingent, he was in 1856 appointed engineer-in-See also:chief for the See also:works carried out by the See also:European See also:Commission of the See also:Danube for improving the navigation at the mouths of that See also:river, and that position he retained till 1872, when he became consulting engineer to the Commission (see DANUBE). In 1875 he was one of the See also:committee appointed by the authority of the U.S.A. See also:Congress to See also:report on the works necessary to See also:form and maintain a deep channel through the See also:south pass of the See also:Mississippi See also:delta; and in 1884 the See also:British See also:government nominated him a member of the See also:international technical commission for widening the See also:Suez See also:Canal. In addition he was consulted by the British and other governments in connexion with many other river and See also:harbour works, including the improvement of the navigation of the See also:Scheldt, See also:Hugli, See also:Don and See also:Dnieper, and of the ports of See also:Odessa, See also:Trieste, Kustendjie, See also:Burgas, See also:Varna and See also:Durban. He was knighted in 1862, and became K.C.M.G. in 1884.
End of Article: HARTLEY, SIR CHARLES AUGUSTUS (1825– )
Additional information and Comments
Hartley died in 1915.
see:
Hartley, C.W.S, 1989, A biography of Sir Charles Hartley, Civil engineer 1825-1915.
Studies in British History volume 9.
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