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Sir William Cubitt
Personal information
Nationality	English
Birth date	1785
Birth place	Norfolk
Date of death	1861
Work
Engineering Discipline	civil engineer
Institution memberships	Institution of Civil Engineers (president}
Significant projects	The Crystal Palace Welwyn Viaduct

Sir William Cubitt (1785–1861) was an eminent English civil engineer and millwright. Born in Norfolk, England, he was employed in many of the great engineering undertakings of his time. He invented a type of windmill sail and the prison treadwheel, and was employed as chief engineer, at Ransomes of Ipswich, before moving to London. He worked on canals, docks, and railways, and the Crystal Palace at Hyde Park in 1851.

He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between 1850 and 1851.^[1]

Structures that still exist include:

• Many windmills in East Anglia and Lincolnshire
• Iron bridges: Brent Eleigh and Clare, and the Stoke Bridge at Ipswich (Suffolk); Witham (Essex).
• Port Offices, Lowestoft
• Haddiscoe Cut
• Oxford Canal at Rugby and at Newbold tunnel
• Shropshire Union Canal at Shelmore Embankment
• Diglis Lock on the River Severn at Worcester
• Foord Viaduct (1844), Folkestone
• Folkestone Warren and Martello, Abbot's Cliff, Shakespeare and Martello tunnels
• Welwyn Viaduct
• Nene Bridge, Peterborough
• Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green

References

• Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861)

1. ^ Watson, Garth (1988), The Civils, London: Thomas Telford Ltd, p. 251, ISBN 0-727-70392-7 

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

Cubitt also constructed Penton Lodge, which is located in Penton Mewsey,