Arthur Brown (engineer)

Arthur Brown M.Inst. C.E. (21 November 1851 - 13 April 1935) was City Engineer for Nottingham, England from 1880 to 1919.

Life
He was born on 21 November 1851 in Nottingham, the son of George Hutchinson Brown a Nottingham merchant. He was educated at Nottingham Grammar School.

On 13 March 1877 at All Saints' Church, Nottingham he married Caroline Goodwin (1854-1919), only daughter of T.A. Goodwin of Nottingham, and they had the following children:
 * Lieutenant Arthur Goodwin Brown M.T., A.S.C. (1878-1947)
 * Lieutenant Ernest Victor Brown R.G.A. (b.1880)
 * Ethel Carrie Brown (b. 1883)
 * Winifred M. Brown (1888-1918) (drowned in the sinking of a ship)

For many years he lived in Glenthorne, Lucknow Avenue, Nottingham. He died on 13 April 1935 and left an estate valued at £43,626.

Career
He was articled to the Borough Engineer Marriott Ogle Tarbotton becoming Assistant Borough Engineer in 1874, and succeeded to the role himself in 1880. He retired in 1919.

Works

 * Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham 1882-83
 * Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham 1882-83
 * Radford Boulevard, Nottingham 1882-83
 * Beck Valley storm water culvert, St Ann's Well Road, Nottingham 1882-83
 * St Peter's Gate churchyard disinterments and improvements 1884
 * Cattle Market, London Road, Nottingham 1885
 * King Street and Queen Street, Nottingham 1890
 * Victoria Park, Nottingham 1894
 * Sneinton Baths, Nottingham 1895
 * Victoria Embankment, Nottingham 1898
 * Construction works for Nottingham Corporation Tramways 1900 onwards
 * Talbot Street power station extension 1900
 * St Ann's Well Road power station 1901-02 and extension 1919
 * Carrington Street bridge, 1904
 * Stoke and Bulcote Sewage Farm extension
 * Bridge over the Nottingham Canal, Trent Street
 * Bridge over the Nottingham Canal, Wilford Street
 * Milton Street, Nottingham (widening)
 * Bath Street, Nottingham (widening)
 * Manvers Street, Nottingham (widening)
 * Bulwell Forest Cricket Ground
 * Lenton recreation ground
 * Wilford Suspension Bridge Nottingham 1906
 * Street works depot, Church Street, Basford 1907-08
 * Goose Gate, Nottingham, (widening) 1911
 * Carlton Road, Nottingham (widening between Thorneywood Lane and the city boundary) 1913