Marriott Ogle Tarbotton MICE, FGS, FRMS, was born in Leeds on 6 December 1834 and died in Nottingham on 6 March 1887. He was Borough Engineer for Nottingham from 1859.
Marriott Ogle Tarbotton MICE, FGS, FRMS, was born in Leeds on 6 December 1834 and died in Nottingham on 6 March 1887. He was Borough Engineer for Nottingham from 1859.
Tarbotton was Borough Engineer at Wakefield from 1855 until he was appointed to the same position in Nottingham in 1859, a position he held until 1880 when he was succeeded by his assistant Arthur Brown.
He was awarded membership in the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1862. [1]
He culverted the River Leen, a source of disease outbreaks. He also planned and oversaw the construction of the underground sewerage system for the city, the first outside London. [2]
He was responsible for the design of Trent Bridge [3] and Papplewick Pumping Station.
He was engineer to the Nottingham Gas Company.
In 1866 he provided a viaduct over the Midland Railway on Carrington Street, Nottingham.
He was a member of the British Meteorological Society and published detailed weather observations in Nottingham over 12 years. [4]
Tarbotton was the eldest son of Samuel Tarbotton (1801 - 1850), Druggist and Drysalter and his wife Grace Ogle (1802-1884).
He married Emma Maria Stanfield (ca. 1832 - 1915) on 8 September 1857.
They had children:
In 1851 he was living in Northallerton in the house of Harry J Hebert (Civil Engineer). In 1871 he was living at 30 Newstead Grove in Nottingham. By 1881 he was living in South Road, The Park, Nottingham.
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