Education
Bramwell trained as an engineer and studied steam propulsion.
Bramwell trained as an engineer and studied steam propulsion.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873 and served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between December 1884 and May 1886 and the President, British Association in 1888. He was knighted in 1881 and created a baronet on 25 January 1889. In 1843 he constructed a locomotive for the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
Secretariat up his own business concentrating legal and consultative work (1853).
He was the first engineer to practise as a technical advocate and later was adviser to the London water companies. There were three daughters to the marriage, with Eldred marrying the scientist, Sir Victor Horsley.
Bramwell died of a cerebral haemorrhage, 30 November 1903, in London, and was buried at Hever, Kent.
Royal Society; Institution of Civil Engineers. Royal Society of Arts. British Science Association.