Peter Bruff
Civil engineer, Architect
1812 – 1900
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Who was Peter Bruff?
Peter Schuyler Bruff, born in Portsmouth, England, was a civil engineer best known for founding the seaside resort town of Clacton on Sea, Essex, and for improving the lives of residents in the Essex towns of Walton-on-the-Naze, Colchester and Harwich. By the time of his death in 1900, Peter Bruff had helped turn what had thirty years before been an empty piece of farmland with a beach into the flourishing seaside town of Clacton on Sea.
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- Born
- 1812
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Died
- 1900
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on July 23, 2013
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