Thomas Bouch

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Thomas Bouch was a 19th-century British railway engineer best known for designing the ill-fated first Tay Bridge, whose catastrophic collapse in 1879 ruined his reputation.

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Label Occurrences
Thomas Bouch canonical 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century engineer
British person
civil engineer
railway engineer
awardReceived knighthood
causeOfDeath illness
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1822-02-25
dateOfDeath 1880-10-30
designed Belah Viaduct
Hawick railway line works
Redheugh Bridge
Skerne Bridge improvements
Wetheral Viaduct
Tay Rail Bridge
surface form: first Tay Bridge
educatedAt local schools in Carlisle
employer Edinburgh and Northern Railway
North British Railway
era Victorian era
familyName Bouch
fieldOfWork bridge engineering
railway engineering
genreOfWork railway infrastructure
givenName Thomas
hasBrother William Bouch
honorificTitle Sir
knownFor economical railway construction methods
use of lattice girder bridges
memberOf Institution of Civil Engineers
notableEvent Tay Bridge disaster
notableFor design of the first Tay Bridge
notableWork Tay Rail Bridge
surface form: first Tay Bridge
occupation civil engineer
railway engineer
placeOfBirth Carlisle
Cumbria
England
placeOfDeath Dumfries and Galloway
Moffat
Scotland
positionHeld consulting engineer to several British railways
engineer-in-chief of the North British Railway
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
reputation ruined by the Tay Bridge disaster
residence Carlisle
Edinburgh
significantEvent public inquiry into the Tay Bridge disaster

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Subject: Thomas Bouch
Description of subject: Thomas Bouch was a 19th-century British railway engineer best known for designing the ill-fated first Tay Bridge, whose catastrophic collapse in 1879 ruined his reputation.

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Court of Inquiry foundResponsibleParty Thomas Bouch
subject surface form: Court of Inquiry into the Tay Bridge Disaster
Court of Inquiry criticized Thomas Bouch
subject surface form: Court of Inquiry into the Tay Bridge Disaster