Person | Male Born 1808 Died 1882

John Scott Russell

Categories: Architecture, Engineering

Countries: Scotland

Image source: www.portcities.org.uk

One of the Secretaries to the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition 1851.

Engineer and navel architect. Born at Parkhead, near Glasgow. Died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight

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John Scott Russell

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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert

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