Marriott Ogle Tarbotton
Marriott Ogle Tarbotton MICE, FGS, FRMS, was born in Leeds on 6 December 1834 and died in Nottingham on 6 March 1887. He was Borough Engineer for Nottingham from 1859.
Career[edit]
Tarbotton was Borough Engineer at Wakefield from 1855 until he was appointed to the same position in Nottingham in 1859, a position he held until 1880 when he was succeeded by his assistant Arthur Brown.
He was awarded membership in the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1862.[1]
He culverted the River Leen, a source of disease outbreaks. He also planned and oversaw the construction of the underground sewerage system for the city, the first outside London.[2]
He was responsible for the design of Trent Bridge[3] and Papplewick Pumping Station.
He was engineer to the Nottingham Gas Company.
In 1866 he provided a viaduct over the Midland Railway on Carrington Street, Nottingham.
He was a member of the British Meteorological Society and published detailed weather observations in Nottingham over 12 years.[4]
Personal life[edit]
Tarbotton was the eldest son of Samuel Tarbotton (1801 - 1850), Druggist and Drysalter and his wife Grace Ogle (1802-1884).
He married Emma Maria Stanfield (ca. 1832 - 1915) on 8 September 1857.
They had children:
- Minnie Grace Tarbotton 1861 - 1920 (married Micaiah John Muller Hill) first son of Revd. Samuel John Hill
- Lilian Mary Tarbotton 1863 - 1931 (married Samuel Charles Hill) second son of Revd. Samuel John Hill
- Harold Ogle Tarbotton 1869 - 1947
In 1851 he was living in Northallerton in the house of Harry J Hebert (Civil Engineer). In 1871 he was living at 30 Newstead Grove in Nottingham. By 1881 he was living in South Road, The Park, Nottingham.
References[edit]
- ^ "Institution of Civil Engineers". Wakefield Express. England. 12 April 1862. Retrieved 8 August 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Pevsner Architectural Guides. Nottingham. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12666-2.
- ^ "The New Trent Bridge - Laying of the Memorial Stone by the Mayor". Nottinghamshire Guardian. England. 23 July 1869. Retrieved 8 August 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ The meteorology of Nottingham for the past 12 years, 1867 to 1878 inclusive ... Marriott Ogle Tarbotton
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