William Tierney Clark

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William Tierney Clark
Born(1783-08-23)23 August 1783
Bristol, England
Died22 September 1852(1852-09-22) (aged 69)
Hammersmith, Middlesex, England
NationalityEnglish
Engraving of the first Hammersmith Bridge, made in 1827
Marlow Bridge
Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest

William Tierney Clark

FRAS[1] (23 August 1783 – 22 September 1852) was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges. He was among the earliest designers of suspension bridges
.

Born in

reservoirs at Barnes to Hammersmith
and other parts of London were designed by him).

He designed the first suspension bridge to span the River

Captain Samuel Brown
, opened in 1834, replaced in 1923).

Internationally, he is revered for his design of the

Pest, it was designed by Tierney Clark in 1839, with construction supervised locally by Scotsman Adam Clark
(no relation). It opened in 1849.

Tierney Clark is also credited with the design of a tunnel between

Gravesend
and Rochester.

He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Tierney Clark lived and died in Hammersmith in Middlesex. His memorial in the local parish church, St Paul’s, shows an outline of his design for the nearby bridge. His bridge has since been replaced by a later one designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, which reuses the Tierney Clark pier foundations.[3]

William Tierney Clark's memorial in the local parish church of St Paul’s, Hammersmith, London

Hungary commemorates Clark by an annual Tierney Clark Award for Civil Engineering presented by the Association of Hungarian Consulting Engineers and Architects.

References

  1. Bibcode:1853MNRAS..13Q..93.
    Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  2. ^ "William Tierney Clark". London Remembers.
  3. ^ "Bridge over the Thames, Marlow". Geograph.org. Retrieved 18 September 2016.

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