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Person    | Male  Born 12/12/1838  Died 17/3/1933

William Cawthorne Unwin

Categories: Education, Engineering

William Cawthorne Unwin

Civil and mechanical engineer. Born Essex. 1900 he became the first London University professor of engineering. Died unmarried, at his home, 7 Palace Gate Mansions, 29 Palace Gate.

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William Cawthorne Unwin

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Skempton Building plaques

2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...

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The Round School

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Johann Pestalozzi

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Lord Richard Haldane

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In 1893 the Acting Superintendent of the old Snow Fields Ragged School.

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