Samuel Clegg (born 1814)

Samuel Clegg (2 April 1814 – 22 July 1856) was a British civil engineer, the only son of Samuel Clegg (1781-1861).

He was employed as an assistant engineer on the Greenwich, Great Western, and Eastern Counties (afterwards the Great Eastern) lines, and as resident engineer on the Southampton and Dorchester railway in 1844. Previously to this he had made a trigonometrical survey of part of the Algarves in Portugal in 1836. He was appointed professor of civil engineering and architecture at Putney College for Civil Engineers in 1849,^[1] and in the same year lecturer on civil engineering to the royal engineers at Chatham, which latter post he held to his death. In 1855, he was sent by the government to Demerara to report upon the sea walls there, and to superintend the works for their restoration. He died at Putney, Surrey, 25 July 1856, aged only forty-two. At the time of his decease he was engaged in maturing a plan for removing all the gas manufactories in London to a considerable distance from the metropolis, and concentrating them at a spot on the Essex shore. He was author of a treatise on coal-gas, 1850. He died at Putney on 25 July 1856, leaving a widow and a young family.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Clegg, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.