George Sorocold ( - c. 1738) was an English civil engineer notable for pioneering work on water supplies and hydraulic power systems around Great Britain.

Biography

Sorocold was born in Lancashire in 1666, the son of James Sorocold and Elizabeth Barrow. He obtained a degree at Cambridge and immediately started his first job in Derby. He married Mary, the daughter of Henry Franceys, on 7 December 1684; by 1702 they had thirteen children, of whom eight survived.

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