Herbert Bartlett

Sir Herbert Henry Bartlett, 1st Baronet (30 April 1842 – 23 June 1921) was a civil engineer and contractor responsible for many landmark buildings in London.

[1] In 1897, Bartlett signed a £877,000 contract to construct a deep tube under the Thames from Waterloo to Baker Street - part of the present-day Bakerloo Line.

[3] He is buried in the family grave, which lies in the western half of Highgate Cemetery in north London on the main central path, just below the entrance to the Egyptian Avenue.

On his death his baronetcy passed to his grandson, Basil, as his two eldest sons had predeceased him (Herbert Evelyn Barlett, 1875–1917, and Hardington Arthur Bartlett 1877–1920, lost at sea).

In 1911, he gave £30,000 to University College London to fund a new building for the School of Architecture, along with the Department of Applied Statistics and studios for the teaching of sculpture.