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George Parker Bidder (1806–1878)

Edward William Wyon (1811–1885)

National Portrait Gallery, London

George Parker Bidder (1806–1878)

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As a child, Bidder had an extraordinary ability to handle numbers without writing them down, and his father, a stonemason, exhibited him widely as a 'calculating boy'. In 1824, he began work in the Ordnance Survey but left the following year to become an assistant to Henry Robinson Palmer, engineer of the London Dock Company. This was the start of a varied and successful career as a civil engineer. He was a friend of Robert Stephenson, and contributed to the planning and construction of railways including the London & Birmingham Railway. He was also one of the founders of the Electric Telegraph Company where he worked on the development of transatlantic cables.

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Title

George Parker Bidder (1806–1878)

Date

c.1855

Medium

marble

Measurements

H 79 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

5163

Acquisition method

purchased, 1977

Work type

Bust

Inscription description

inscribed

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Edward William Wyon

1811–1885

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