Thomas Codrington

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Thomas Codrington
Personal information
Name	Thomas Codrington
Birth date	1829
Birth place	Wroughton, Wiltshire
Date of death	1918
Work
Engineering Discipline	Civil engineering
Institution memberships	Institution of Civil Engineers

Thomas Codrington (1829, Wroughton, Wiltshire - 1918) was a British engineer and antiquarian of the late Victorian era. With a career background as an Inspector for local government, he published several known works. First was Report on the Destruction of Town Refuse, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 1888. This was only a short pamphlet of 48 pages, including illustrations of furnaces in use at the time.

Codrington went on to write the slightly more substantial 172 page work The Maintenance of Macadamised Roads in 1879, published by E. & F.N. Spon.

However, by far Codrington's most famous work was also one of his last. Roman roads in Britain, published originally in 1903, was the first attempt by any author to catalogue fully the evident remains of the Roman transport network in the United Kingdom. Several further editions were subsequently published, and indeed reprinted. The last of these was a reprint of the 3rd edition in 1928.

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• "Brief biography of Codrington", should also be some original scans of his text soon.

Persondata
NAME	Codrington, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	British engineer and antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH	1829
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroughton, Wiltshire, England
DATE OF DEATH	1918
PLACE OF DEATH