William Haywood
William Haywood (1821(?)-1894).
1894 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM HAYWOOD, who died on the 13th of April, 1894, at his house in Hamilton Terrace, Maida Vale, was not one of those originators in constructive mechanics whose novel achievements have been so fruitful of social changes and developments in the present century. He was, however, a master of the science of civil engineering, who by working on ascertained principles carried out improvements in something like half the streets and places in the City of London, at an expenditure of some millions of money, and in doing so produced at least one work which will hand him down to posterity as one of the improvers of the British capital.
In a letter written to the Lord Mayor, only eight days before his death, Haywood spoke with mingled pride and modesty of the Holborn Viaduct as a work 'which, small as it may be, is an historic work'; and no fair critic of the high-level way over the Holborn Valley will suggest that in these words the architect and engineer exaggerated the importance of his greatest achievement. The elder son of Mr. William Haywood of Camberwell,....[more]
1894 Obituary [2]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Institution of Civil Engineers Minutes of the Proceedings
- ↑ The Engineer 1894/04/20