ink on them "Approved JWB", "I do not like 6" used here and 9" should be used. JWB", and so on. It is perhaps not surprising that his health suffered as a result. The records are held by Thames Water in large blue binders gold-blocked reading "Metropolitan Board of Works" and then dated, usually two per year. Private life Bazalgette lived at 17 Hamilton Terrace, St John's Wood, north London, for some years. Before 1851, he moved to Morden, then in 1873 to Arthur Road, Wimbledon, where he died in 1891. He was buried in the nearby churchyard at St Mary's Church. In 1845 at Westminster, he married Maria Kough (1819–1902). Lady Bazalgette died at her residence in Wimbledon on 3 March 1902. They had eleven children including: Joseph William, born 20 February 1846 Charles Norman born 3 March 1847 Edward, born 28 June 1848 Theresa Philo, born 1850 Caroline, born 17 July 1852 Maria, born 1854 Henry, born 14 September 1855 Willoughby, born 1857 Maria Louise, born 1859 Anna Constance, born 3 December 1859 Evelyn, born 1 April 1861 Awards and memorials Bazalgette was knighted in 1875, and elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1883. A Greater London Council blue plaque commemorates Bazalgette at 17 Hamilton Terrace in St John's Wood in North London, and he is also commemorated by a formal monument on the Victoria Embankment by the River Thames in central London. In July 2020, it was announced that a new public space west of Blackfriars Bridge, formed following construction of the Thames Tideway Scheme, would be named the Bazalgette Embankment. Dulwich College has a scholarship in his name either for design and technology or for mathematics and science. Other works Albert Embankment (1869) Victoria Embankment (1870) Chelsea Embankment (1874) Maidstone Bridge (1879) Albert Bridge (1884; modifications) Putney Bridge (1886) Hammersmith Bridge (1887) The Woolwich Free Ferry (1889) Battersea Bridge (1890) Charing Cross Road Garrick Street Northumberland Avenue Shaftesbury Avenue Early plans for the Blackwall Tunnel (1897) Proposal for what later became Tower Bridge Notable descendants Ian Bazalgette (great-grandson), RAF pilot awarded a Victoria Cross Peter Bazalgette (great-great-grandson), television producer Edward Bazalgette (great-great-grandson), musician and television director References Further reading Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819–1891): Engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works – D P Smith: Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 1986–87 Vol 58. London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of