Fox, Charles, Sir, 1810-1874

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Name (Latin)
Fox, Charles, Sir, 1810-1874
Date of birth
1810-03-11
Date of death
1874-06-11
Place of birth
Derby (England)
Place of death
London (England)
Field of activity
Civil engineering
Railroads
Occupation
Civil engineers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 937160
Wikidata: Q1064402
Library of congress: no 94028074
CMA10: 000047288
Sources of Information
  • Google search, Dec. 18, 2007(Sir Charles Fox (1810-1874), engineer; his firm, Fox, Henderson & Co. undertook the contract for the Crystal Palace)
  • Wikipedia, Aug. 19, 2013(Sir Charles Fox (11 March 1810, Derby, United Kingdom-11 June 1874) was an English civil engineer and contractor. His work focused on railways, railway stations and bridges. Sir Charles Fox died at Blackheath, London on 14 June 1874, at the age of sixty-four. )
  • Crystal Palace, Joseph Paxton and Charles Fox, 1994:p. 18 (engineering contractor Charles Fox)
  • DNB(Fox, Sir Charles (1810-1874); engineer; b. Derby 3/11/1810; d. Blackheath 6/14/1874; chief undertaking was the building [i.e. Crystal Palace] in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851, designed by Paxton; recieved knighthood (10/22/1851))