was appointed Chief Engineer for the Hobson's Bay Railway company and designed the first commercial steam railway in Melbourne. Moore replaced another of Cubitt's assistants, William Snell Chauncy. Later life Cubitt retired from business in 1858, and died at his residence on Clapham Common, Surrey, on 13 October 1861, and was buried in Norwood cemetery on 18 October. Family Cubitt was born at Dilham, Norfolk, on 9 October 1785. His father was Joseph Cubitt (1760-1829), a miller, and his mother was Hannah Lubock (1765-1831). He had two brothers, Benjamin and Joseph. First marriage Cubitt married Abigail Sparkhall (1785-1813) on 26 June 1809. The couple had one son, Joseph, and two daughters. Joseph Cubitt (1811–1872) became a civil engineer. Second marriage Cubitt married Elizabeth Jane Tiley (1791-1863) on 24 January 1821. The couple had a son, William, born 1830. Structures Extant structures by Cubitt include: Many windmills in East Anglia and Lincolnshire Iron bridges: Brent Eleigh and Clare, and the Stoke Bridge at Ipswich (Suffolk); Witham (Essex). Port Offices, Lowestoft Haddiscoe Cut Oxford Canal at Rugby and at Newbold tunnel Shropshire Union Canal at Shelmore Embankment Diglis Lock on the River Severn at Worcester Foord Viaduct (1844), Folkestone Folkestone Warren and Martello, Abbot's Cliff, Shakespeare and Martello tunnels Welwyn Viaduct Nene Bridge, Peterborough Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green Cubitt also constructed Penton Lodge, which is located in Penton Mewsey. See also Penal treadmill References External links Sir William Cubitt (1785–1861) 1785 births 1861 deaths English civil engineers People from North Norfolk (district) Burials at West Norwood Cemetery Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers Presidents of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers People associated with wind power Millwrights British bridge engineers British railway civil engineers People of the Industrial Revolution Fellows of the Royal Society 19th-century British engineers Knights Bachelor