Harrison Hayter was a British

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 engineer, participating in many significant railway construction projects in Britain and many harbour and dock constructions worldwide.

Hayter was born at Flushing

Flushing, Cornwall

Flushing is a coastal village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles south of Penryn and eleven miles south-east of Truro. It faces Falmouth across the Penryn river, an arm of the Carrick Roads...

 near Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset....

 the second son of Henry Hayter and his wife Eliza Jane Heylyn. He became a Civil Engineer

Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...

, and began his professional training on the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Stockton and Darlington Railway

The Stockton and Darlington Railway , which opened in 1825, was the world's first publicly subscribed passenger railway. It was 26 miles long, and was built in north-eastern England between Witton Park and Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington, and connected to several collieries near Shildon...

 and then in the construction of the Great Northern Railway

Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)

The Great Northern Railway was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846. On 1 January 1923 the company lost its identity as a constituent of the newly formed London and North Eastern Railway....

. In 1856 he was living in Anglesey, while working on the construction of Holyhead

Holyhead

Holyhead is the largest town in the county of Anglesey in the North Wales. It is also a major port adjacent to the Irish Sea serving Ireland....

 Harbour.

In 1857 he joined Sir John Hawkshaw

John Hawkshaw

Sir John Hawkshaw , was an English civil engineer.-Early life:He was born in Leeds, Yorkshire and was educated at Leeds Grammar School...

 and was associated with most of his projects until Sir John retired in 1888. These including the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways...

, Charing Cross and Cannon Street Lines, East London Railway

East London Line

The East London Line is a London Overground line which runs north to south through the East End, Docklands and South areas of London.Built in 1869 by the East London Railway Company, which reused the Thames Tunnel, originally intended for horse-drawn carriages, the line became part of the London...

, completion of Inner Circle, the Severn Tunnel

Severn Tunnel

The Severn Tunnel is a railway tunnel in the United Kingdom, linking South Gloucestershire in the west of England to Monmouthshire in south Wales under the estuary of the River Severn....

 Railway and many overseas railways. The bridges he helped build included the Charing Cross Railway Bridge

Hungerford Bridge

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, the Cannon Street Railway Bridge

Cannon Street Railway Bridge

Cannon Street Railway Bridge is a bridge in central London, crossing the River Thames. Downstream, the next bridge is London Bridge, and upstream Southwark Bridge. It carries trains over the river to Cannon Street station on the north bank...

 and the Clifton Suspension Bridge

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Brunel died in 1859, without seeing the completion of the bridge. Brunel's colleagues in the Institution of Civil Engineers felt that completion of the Bridge would be a fitting memorial, and started to raise new funds...

. Harbours were at Alderney

Alderney

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, IJmuiden (Holland) and Mornungao (India) and docks at Hull

Kingston upon Hull

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, Penarth

Penarth

Penarth is a town and seaside resort in the Vale of Glamorgan , Wales, 5.2 miles south west from the city centre of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff and lying on the north shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay...

, Maryport

Maryport

Maryport is a town and civil parish within the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England, in the historic county of Cumberland. It is located on the A596 road north of Workington, and is the southernmost town on the Solway Firth. Maryport railway station is on the Cumbrian Coast Line. The town is in...

, Fleetwood

Fleetwood

Fleetwood is a town within the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, lying at the northwest corner of the Fylde. It had a population of 26,840 people at the 2001 Census. It forms part of the Greater Blackpool conurbation. The town was the first planned community of the Victorian era...

, Dover

Dover

Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings...

 and the South dock of the West India Docks

West India Docks

The West India Docks are a series of three docks on the Isle of Dogs in London, the first of which opened in 1802. The docks closed to commercial traffic in 1980 and the Canary Wharf development was built on the site.-History:...

. Other works included the Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 Ship Canal, the foundation of the Spithead Forts

Palmerston Forts, Portsmouth

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, River Witham

River Witham

The River Witham is a river, almost entirely in the county of Lincolnshire, in the east of England. It rises south of Grantham close to South Witham, at SK8818, passes Lincoln at SK9771 and at Boston, TF3244, flows into The Haven, a tidal arm of The Wash, near RSPB Frampton Marsh...

 middle level, Thames Valley drainages, and sewerage in Brighton

Brighton

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. When he died he was completing a large system of docks at Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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 (a dredged channel 14 miles (22.5 km) long and a 3.5 miles (5.6 km) river frontage).

Harrison was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Engineer and Railway Volunteer Staff Corps and served as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Institution of Civil Engineers

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 between May 1892 and May 1893. He was buried at Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery is a cemetery located in north London, England. It is designated Grade I on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. It is divided into two parts, named the East and West cemetery....

.

Harrison was a younger brother of Henry Heylyn Hayter

Henry Heylyn Hayter

Henry Heylyn Hayter CMG was an English-born Australian statisticianHayter was the son of Henry Hayter and his wife Eliza Jane née Heylyn...

 the Australian statistician. In 1854 he married Eliza Jane Walker (1827–1882), the eldest daughter of Rev Thomas Walker, Rector of Offord D'Arcy

Offord D'Arcy

Offord D'Arcy is a village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 747 people. It is the twin village of Offord Cluny and together they are known as The Offords....

, Huntingdonshire and a Lincolnshire landowner. They had eight children including Rev. William Thomas Baring Hayter

William Thomas Baring Hayter

The Very Rev William Thomas Baring Hayter was an eminent Anglican Priest and teacher in the first decades of the 20th Century....

 and Frances Jane Hayter who married Falconer Madan

Falconer Madan

Falconer Madan was Librarian of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.Falconer was the fifth son of George and Harriet Madan. He was educated at Marlborough College and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he took part in Oxford and Cambridge Chess matches in 1873 and 1874, and won the University...

 (1851–1935), Librarian of the Bodleian Library

Bodleian Library

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 of Oxford University

Publications

• An Account of the Construction of large Breakwaters at Holyhead.
• Details of the Construction of Charing Cross Railway Bridge
• Construction of Amsterdam Ship Canal