Bazalgette Memorial

[1] Simonds studied under Johannes Schilling in Dresden, and Louis Jehotte at The Academy of Brussels.

[2] While The Falconer (1873) is in Central Park, New York,[3] much of his larger work is to be found in or near Reading.

[4] Substantial pieces were also commissioned for Indian locations, Allahabad[5] and Calcutta.

[6] In 1922 he designed the war memorial at Bradfield, Berkshire,[7] which commemorated the deaths of local men in the First World War including his son, a lieutenant with the South Wales Borderers.

As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1858) of a sewer network for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames.