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33: 421: 124:(1799-1856). He later became a partner in Rendel's engineering practice, for which he prepared surveys and drawings of railways, roads, bridges and harbors, worked on water supplies in both Scotland and England, and to a lesser extent worked on railroad projects. His partnership with Rendel ceased amicably in 1848, and Beardmore in 1850 became the sole engineer for the drainage and navigation works on the 213:. He married in 1841 Mary Bernard (1816–1890), the oldest daughter of civil servant John Frederick Bernard. They had ten children, eight of whom survived their father, including the three below. 188:
Manual of Hydrology; containing I. Hydraulic and other Tables; II. Rivers, Flow of Water, Springs, Wells, and Percolation; III. Tides, Estuaries, and Tidal Rivers; IV. Rain-fall and Evaporation
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became the standard professional text-book for hydraulic engineering. A third, expanded edition of this work that appeared in 1862 enhanced his reputation as an engineer.
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Nathaniel St. Bernard Beardmore (1848–1885) followed his father as a civil engineer and was his assistant on various projects, including some associated with the
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Beardmore was the second son of Joshua Beardmore and his wife Dorothea Cox. He was raised in a religious family, his father's maternal uncle being
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for his paper 'Description of the Navigation and Drainage Works, recently executed on the Tidal portion of the River Lea'.
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Forrest, James, ed. (1873), "Mr. Nathaniel Beardmore: Memoirs: Appendix to Annual Report (obituary)." In
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1872–73 – Part II,
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1885 – Part II,
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Dobson (1885), p. 16; Forrest (1873), pp. 256–264; McConnell (2000), pp. 325–327.)
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Frances Mary Beardmore (1843–1926) married the popular poet and essayist
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Forrest, James, ed. (1885), "Nathaniel St. Bernard Beardmore (obituary)." In
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Rev. Henry Leslie Beardmore, M.A. (1855–1933) was Rector of
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Institution of Civil Engineers, London, v. 82, pp. 378–380.
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Institution of Civil Engineers, London, v. 36, pp. 256–264.
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A man of diverse talents and many interests, he was elected a
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
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Pen portraits of past presidents - Nathaniel Beardmore
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Forrest (1873), pp. 256–264: McConnell (2000), p. 327.
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Nottingham
Broxbourne
civil engineer
hydraulic engineering
River Lea
Nottingham
civil engineer
James Meadows Rendel
River Lea
Telford Medal
Institution of Civil Engineers
Fellow
Geological Society of London
Fellow
Royal Astronomical Society
Institution of Civil Engineers
Royal Meteorological Society
Broxbourne
pneumonia
Archdeacon
John Owen
Chaplain General
British Armed Forces
Henry Austin Dobson
River Lea
Fellow
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Meteorological Society
Geologists' Association

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