page_title: Joseph Bazalgette
section_title: Awards and memorials
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Bazalgette / Awards and memorials
caption_attribution_description: English: Joseph Bazalgette
context_page_description: Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, CB was a 19th-century English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames.
context_section_description: Bazalgette was knighted in 1875, and elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1883.
  A Greater London Council blue plaque commemorates Bazalgette at 17 Hamilton Terrace in St John's Wood in North London, and he is also commemorated by a formal monument on the Victoria Embankment by the River Thames in central London. In July 2020, it was announced that a new public space west of Blackfriars Bridge, formed following construction of the Thames Tideway Scheme, would be named the Bazalgette Embankment.
  Dulwich College has a scholarship in his name either for design and technology or for mathematics and science.
caption: Memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette on Victoria Embankment
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