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See also:HAWKSLEY, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1807–1893) , See also:English engineer, was See also:born on the 12th of See also:July 1807, at See also:Arnold, near See also:Nottingham. He was at Nottingham See also:grammar school till the See also:age of fifteen, but was indebted to his private studies for his knowledge of See also:mathematics, See also:chemistry and See also:geology. In 1822 he was articled to an architect in Nottingham, subsequently becoming a partner in the See also:firm, which also undertook See also:engineering See also:work; and in 1852 he removed to See also:London, where he continued in active practice till he was well past eighty. His work was chiefly concerned with See also:water and See also:gas See also:supply and with See also:main-drainage. Of water-See also:works he used to say that he had constructed 150, and a See also:long See also:list Might be See also:drawn up of important towns that owe their water to his skill, including See also:Liverpool, See also:Sheffield, See also:Leicester, See also:Leeds, See also:Derby, See also:Darlington, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, See also:Cambridge and See also:Northampton in See also:England, and See also:Stockholm, See also:Altona and Bridgetown (See also:Barbados) in other See also:county e`s. To his native See also:town of Nottingham he was water engineer for fifty years, and the See also:system he designed for it was noteworthy from the fact that the principle of See also:constant supply was adopted for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. The gas-works at Notting-See also:ham, and at many other towns for which he provided water supclies were also constructed by him. He designed main-drainage systems for See also:Birmingham, See also:Worcester and See also:Windsor among other places, and in 1857 he was called in, together with G. P. See also:Bidder and See also:Sir J. See also:Bazalgette, to See also:report on the best See also:solution of the vexed question of a main-drainage See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for London. In 1872 he was See also:president of the Institution of See also:Civil See also:Engineers—an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in which his son See also:Charles followed him in 1901. He died in London on the 23rd of See also:September 1893.
End of Article: HAWKSLEY, THOMAS (1807–1893)
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