Edwin Clark (civil engineer)

Edwin Clark FRAS[1] (7 January 1814 – 22 October 1894)[2] was an English Civil Engineer, specialising in hydraulics.

He is remembered principally as the designer of the Anderton Boat Lift (1875) near Northwich in Cheshire, which links the navigable stretch of the River Weaver with the Trent and Mersey Canal.

[3] Clark was at one time a mathematical master at Brook Green, then became a Surveyor in the west of England.

In 1846 Clark went to London where he met Robert Stephenson, who appointed him Superintending engineer of the Britannia Bridge.

[5] In 1857 Clark became Engineer to the Thames Graving Dock Limited, for which he designed a graving dock in which the ships to be repaired were lifted from the water by hydraulic presses, based on his experience of lifting the tubular sections of Stephenson's Britannia and Conwy tubular bridges over the Menai Strait.