Thomas Penson
Civil engineer, Project participant
1790 – 1859
Who was Thomas Penson?
Thomas Penson, or Thomas Penson the younger was the county surveyor of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire. An innovative architect and designer of a number of masonry arch bridges over the River Severn and elsewhere. He was the son of Thomas Penson the older, who had been the county surveyor for Flintshire from 1810 to 1814, but had been dismissed when the bridge at Overton-on-Dee collapsed. Thomas Penson the younger, completed its replacement. Thomas Penson the younger had two sons: Thomas Mainwaring Penson and Richard Kyrke Penson, both of whom were architects and both practised in Chester
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- Born
- 1790
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- May 20, 1859
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on July 23, 2013
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