John Walter Baxter

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(4 June 1917 in London–21 October 2003) was a British

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. Baxter left

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at the age of 16. He was a graduate of the City & Guilds College, with a BSc in engineering. He worked for Trussed Concrete Steel Company from 1936 to 1941,

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from 1941 to 1952. He met

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and joined the firm of Maunsell, Posford, and Pavry in 1952. John Baxter was a founding partner of the new firm of G Maunsell & Partners in 1955 and was a senior partner from 1959 to 1980. He was responsible for designing the Westway. His work appears in ''ICE Proceedings''. He was appointed

in the

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and was elected president of the

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in 1986. He married Jessie in 1941 and they had a daughter.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baxter, John Walter British civil engineers 1917 births 2003 deaths Engineers from London Alumni of Imperial College London People educated at Westminster City School Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers Presidents of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers