Samuel Charles Brees ( 1810 – 5 May 1865) was a British artist, surveyor and engineer. He served an apprenticeship with a London architect then trained as a civil engineer in Bristol under G.W.Buck and

Robert Stephenson Robert Stephenson , (honoris causa, Hon. causa) (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of hi ...

. He designed the greater part of the London to Birmingham line. Between 1837 and 1847 he published a four volume series on Railway Practice, which is considered one of the foremost sources of contemporary information on civil engineering related to early railways and rolling stock, and was illustrated with more than 250 folding and double paged plates. He was employed by the

New Zealand Company The New Zealand Company, chartered in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, was a company that existed in the first half of the 19th century on a business model that was focused on the systematic colonisation of New Ze ...

as principal surveyor and engineer from 1842 to 1845. He succeeded

William Mein Smith William Mein Smith (also known as Kapene Mete; 1798 – 3 January 1869) was a key figure in the settlement of Wellington, New Zealand. As the Surveyor General for Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Edward Wakefield's New Zealand Company at Port Nichols ...

in this role. Brees died of heart disease at sea on the ''

La Hogue Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue () is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. It is particularly known for being a major site of fortifications designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban: the watchtowers of Tatihou and L ...

'' off Blackwall, London.

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