William Tierney Clark (1783–1852) CE FRS: The Man and his Contemporaries

Notes

• The BTM holds the ‘Adam Clark Archive’, which contains the two Clarks’ correspondence and much else besides. The MTA has Clark’s letters to Count Széchenyi from 1832 onwards and the Count’s drafts to Clark. The MOL is the depository of the Chain Bridge drawings and some vital documents. All such letters came from WTC as none of the replies has survived in Hammersmith.
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• Journal of Engineering History and Heritage, 164, issue EH2.
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• Royal Society of London: EC/1837/18.
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• Which he passed, his report is one of the few surviving Clark documents in this country.
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• A good copy is kept in the ICE Library.
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• MTA K/203/42 — 13/10/1837.
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• Journal of the Royal Society of London 48.
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• London Metropolitan Archives: ACC 2558/WM/A/23.
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• Széchenyi István Napló (Budapest: Gondolat, 1978) (this is the title in Hungarian).
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• The trip is recounted in his letter of 9 September from Vienna.
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• Kettensteg, 1824, over the Pegnitz River in Bavaria.
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• Karl Fredrich Schinkel travelled to England and Scotland in 1826 and was an honorary member of the newly set up (Royal) Institute of British Architects.
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• It somehow escaped the World Warr II bombardment and can be seen in front of the Alte Museum.
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• The Casino was a gentlemen’s club based on the London model but more politically orientated.
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• The transcription dates his arrival for the 21st but SzD records 30 August, which being a day-by-day account must be correct.
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• In Slovak ‘Bratislava’, in Hungarian ‘Pozsony’.
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• Published by George Vertue in 1840. It included a lithograph by George Hawkins of Clark’s bridge design, well before it was built, thus making it known in advance to the British public: Vol. iii, p. 262.
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• Two reservoirs were constructed of an area of 8 acres each.
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• A detailed report dated 25 August 1842 appeared in The Times of 5 September.
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• The author’s tombstone is in the graveyard of St Mary, Ewelme, Oxon with his full name of Jerome Klapka Jerome.
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• Kept in MOL: T14-34/IV/19 signature dated 27 September 1838.
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• As per Certified Copy of Entry of Death given at The General Register Office. Application number: B 002512/A. (The house has been identified with the help of Anne Wheeldon as above.)
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• National Archive/Public Record Office: IR 26/1927 IC842.
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• WTC’s letter to Adam Clark of 6 April 1848, in archive of BTM.
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• Charles Sproxton, Palmerston and the Hungarian Revolution (Cambridge, 1920).
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• Louis Kossuth was the leader of the Hungarian War of Independence. He later came to England to great acclaim and is commemorated with a blue plaque at 39 Chepstow Villas in Notting Hill Gate.
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• ICE Memoirs (1852), p. 153.
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• R. A. Buchanan, ‘The Diaspora of British Engineering’, Technology and Culture, 27·3 (July 1986), 501–24.
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• As in letter to Széchenyi dated 14 November 1838: MTA Archive K/203/55.
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• Letter to Széchenyi dated 15 February 1836: MTA Archive K203/38.
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• The will is in The National Archives (Public Record Office): Probate: 11/5/159 (kindly transcribed by Anne Wheeldon of Hammersmith and Fulham Archives). The valuation is also there, file IR 26/1927 IC 842.
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• In the 1851 Census she was recorded as twenty-nine years of age.
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• As recorded in the RIBA Proceedings of that year, kept at the RIBA Library.
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• London Metropolitan Archives: SC/GL/WAK/H2.
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• All such letters are kept at the BTM in the Adam Clark Archive.
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• Denis Smith records that on Clark’s death the directors of the West Middlesex Water Company appointed W. B. Hack as Resident Engineer and given ‘the use of the house occupied by the late Mr Clark’. Hack is mentioned several times in Clark’s letters to Knight. Judit Brody, ‘The Chain Bridge at Budapest’, Technology and Culture, 29·1 (1988). Denis Smith, ‘The Works of William Tierney Clark (1783–1852), Civil Engineer of Hammersmith’, Transactions of the Newcomen Society 63 (1991–2), pp. 181–207.
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