Talk:Marc Isambard Brunel

message: Well I never knew that Brunel is an Old English surname, 
*http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Brunel
*http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=&s=Brunel
86.186.3.245 (talk) 12:14, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Brunel

message: According to this page Marc Brunel started out as French, then took US nationality in 1796.  There is no record of him taking British nationality.  However in 1846 Queen Victoria knighted him and he has subsequently been known as Sir Marc.  Foreign citizens are usually awarded an honorary knighthood (which doesn't carry the right to the style "Sir"), not a substantive one.  Can anyone throw light on this anomaly? Martin of Sheffield (talk) 15:46, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the UK nationality limitation on knighthoods is more recent than this. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:05, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be nice to track it down for certain.  I thought that the "subjects only" rule went way back to when knights were riding about saving poor misunderstood dragons from publicity-concious maidens,;-) AIUI there's a small issue of pledging personal allegiance before all others - a bit difficult if you're a foreign citizen!  I'll keep nosing around, if I find some citable facts I'll add them as a footnote. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 20:42, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality and Knighthood 

message: Marc Isambard Brunel never was Chief Engineer of New York City because that position did not exit outside of the Army Corps of Engineers.  Nor are there any records of him being employed as an engineer, even though records of other engineer and surveyors survive. 
There WAS a French emigre who served as an Army engineer and surveyor in New York City, Joseph Francois Mangin.  He went on to become a famous architect: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Fran%C3%A7ois_Mangin  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ferreiro (talk • contribs) 12:35, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marc Isambard Brunel never was Chief Engineer of New York City  

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Most of the references are to Bagust (2006) which is given a full citation 7 times - not bad when there are only 11 references!  The latest edit from  at least tries to reduce this by changing to the sfn/reference list style rather that the ref format.  A change in referencing style requires consensus.  I'm quite happy to go through the page and sort out the duplications if there are no objections.  Can we say that if there are no objections by the end of the week consensus has been obtained please.  Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 19:20, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations and references 

message: There is a link in this article to commons:Category:Marc Isambart Brunel; on that page the infobox records: "Name in native language - Marc Isambart Brunel". I have never heard of such a spelling as "Isambart", but there is some supporting evidence online. It is not mentioned in this article. Since this is English wikipedia, I propose that the category be renamed to use the English spelling by which he is normally known here. (I note that despite the fact that commons:Category:Marc Isambard Brunel "does not currently exist", there are two items in it!) -- Verbarson  talkedits 17:04, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isambart?