Josiah Parkes
1793–1871
Agricultural and civil engineer. Practised as an engineer in Manchester, 1820–5; in Paris, 1825–30. Consultant engineer to the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1843–7. Worked as a draining adviser until 1869.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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