William Cubitt

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This article is about the engineer. For the contractor, see William Cubitt (MP).

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William Cubitt
William Cubitt
Name	William Cubitt
Nationality	English
Birth date	1785
Birth place	Norfolk
Date of death	1861
Work
Engineering Discipline	civil engineer
Institution memberships	Institution of Civil Engineers (president}
Significant projects	The Crystal Palace Welwyn Viaduct

Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861) was an eminent English civil engineer and millwright. Born in Norfolk, England, he was employed in many of the great engineering undertakings of his time. He invented a type of windmill sail and the prison treadwheel, and was employed as Chief engineer, at Ransomes of Ipswich, before moving to London. He worked on canals, docks, and railways, and the Crystal Palace at Hyde Park in 1851.

He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between 1850 and 1851.^[1]

Structures that still exist include:

Many windmills in East Anglia or Lincolnshire
Iron bridges: Brent Eleigh and Clare, and the Stoke Bridge at Ipswich (Suffolk); Witham (Essex).
Port Offices, Lowestoft
Haddiscoe Cut
Oxford Canal at Rugby and at Newbold Tunnel
Shropshire Union Canal at Shelmore Embankment
Diglis Lock on the River Severn at Worcester
Folkestone Viaduct
Folkestone Warren and Martello, Abbot's Cliff, Shakespeare and Martello Tunnels
Welwyn Viaduct
Nene Bridge, Peterborough
Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green