Sir Joseph Bazalgette, CB.
Engineer of the London main drainage system and of this embankment.
Born 1819 Died 1891.
{Above the bust:}
Flumini vincula posvit
{He put the river in chains}
Bronze 1899
WC2, Victoria Embankment
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