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Isambard Brunel
1837–1902
Best known for writing one of the earliest full biographies of his father, the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, he combined family insight with a trained lawyer’s eye for detail. His work helped preserve the story of one of Victorian Britain’s most famous builders.
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The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer
by Isambard Brunel
About the author
Born in 1837, he was the eldest son of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Reliable library and reference records identify him as an English barrister and author, and contemporary reference material also places him at Oxford.
He is chiefly remembered for The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer, published in 1870. That book became an important early account of his father’s life and achievements, drawing on unusually close personal knowledge of the Brunel family.
He died in 1902. A suitable confirmed portrait image could not be verified from the sources reviewed in this conversation.