Arthur Brown (engineer)
# 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 (equivalent to £3,221,900 in 2021).

## 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
