page_title: Henry Norris (engineer)
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Norris (engineer)
caption_attribution_description: English: North Foreland lighthouse at Broadstairs, Kent, England taken about 1880 and showing the modernised light as it was after 1860
context_page_description: Henry Norris was a British civil engineer born in Poplar, London the son of several generations of house carpenters. He was the resident engineer for lighthouse construction projects under contract to Trinity House from civil engineers Messrs. Walker & Burges, the firm of James Walker and Alfred Burges, and later on oversaw the building of Souter Lighthouse, the world's first lighthouse specifically designed & built to be powered by electricity.
  He died at Stratford, London and is buried at Tower Hamlets Cemetery. His grave was located during ground clearing work in 2013 a few metres from that of John Buckley.
  Henry Norris noted projects around the coast of England and Wales, included:
context_section_description: Henry Norris (1816–1878) was a British civil engineer born in Poplar, London the son of several generations of house carpenters.  He was the resident engineer for lighthouse construction projects under contract to Trinity House from civil engineers Messrs. Walker & Burges, the firm of James Walker and Alfred Burges, and later on oversaw the building of Souter Lighthouse, the world's first lighthouse specifically designed & built to be powered by electricity.
  He died at Stratford, London and is buried at Tower Hamlets Cemetery. His grave was located during ground clearing work in 2013 a few metres from that of John Buckley (VC).
  Henry Norris noted projects around the coast of England and Wales, included:
caption: North Foreland lighthouse at Broadstairs, Kent about 1880 with modernised light as it was after 1860
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