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James Oldham was a British civil engineer, involved in the reclamation of Sunk Island in the East Riding of Yorkshire, as well as a number of dock and other civil engineering schemes in and around Kingston upon Hull. == Biography == James Oldham was born in Kingston upon Hull on 23 June 1801. At fourteen he went to sea, spending time on ships in the Baltic; however the life of a seaman prove too much for him and he later returned to England, and joined his father, a mill wright as apprentice, learning mechanical engineering.〔Minutes of the Proceedings (1891) p.377〕 One of his first contracts for was for the upgrade of the North Bridge on the River Hull in 1832 for the Hull Corporation on which he acted as superintending engineer.〔Minutes of the Proceedings (1891) pp.377–378〕 In 1835 he prepared a plan for the conversion of the Old Harbour, Hull in 1835;, a design for a West Dock for Thomas Thompson, published 1836; and a plan for a dock in the east of Hull for the ''Queen's Dock Company'' in 1838. He also was engineer for a number of proposed railways : the ''Hull and Gainsborough'' (New Holland to Gainsborough) of 1844, the 1845 ''Hull and Barnsley Junction'' scheme, the 1866 ''Hull and West Yorkshire and Lancashire'', and the 1884 ''Hull and Lincoln'' railway.〔The Engineer (20 June 1890)〕〔 He also was an engineer on the ''Hull and Leeds'' (1835) (Hull to Selby), and Hull and Hornsea Railways.〔 In 1850 he was employed by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to reclaim the land a Sunk Island on the north bank of the Humber Estuary, and undertook surveys for reclamation of a larger area to the east of 〔Minutes of the Proceedings (1891) p.378〕 In 1874 he entered into partnership with George Bohn;〔 the firm acted under James Abernethy during the construction of the Alexandra Dock of the Hull and Barnsley Railway in the 1880s. He was a founder of the Hull Mechanic's Institute, and a regular and reliable witness to Committees of the Houses of Parliament.〔Minutes of the Proceedings (1891) pp.379–340〕 He died 10 June 1890, of congestion of the lungs.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Oldham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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