Henry Marc Brunel

[1] He then gained experience in civil engineering initially being apprenticed for three years to Sir William Armstrong from 1861.

[2] His first involvement dated back to 1878 when he prepared a case against Bazalgette's proposal for a low bridge for the Parliamentary Committee.

After the death of Horace Jones, and the appointment of Barry to be in charge, Brunel was tasked with the detailed design of the bridge and then supervised the construction being led by Edward Cruttwell, the resident engineer.

He also designed the SS Chauncy Maples, which was built in Glasgow in 1899 and transported overland to Lake Nyasa in Africa, where it served for more than one hundred years as a mission and hospital clinic.

[2] In Autumn 1901 Brunel suffered a stroke, and he died at his home 21 Abingdon, Westminster on 7 October 1903.