Original: Early life The son of the engineer Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, an exiled Frenchman, and Sophia (née Kingdom) Brunel (d. 1854), Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 9 April 1806.
Simplified: Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 15 September 1859) was an English engineer.