Charles Bressey
| Sir Charles Bressey CB, CBE | |
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3 January 1874 Wanstead, Essex |
| Died | 14 April 1951 (aged 77) Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Civil Engineer, Surveyor |
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Chief Engineer for Roads, Ministry of Transport, 1921-1938 |
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Chief Engineer for Roads, Ministry of Transport, 1921-1938
Sir Charles Herbert Bressey, CB, CBE (3 January 1874 – 14 April 1951) was a civil engineer and surveyor who specialised in road design. Bressey was Chief Engineer for Roads at the Ministry of Transport from 1921 to 1938. Between 1935 and 1938 he carried out research on road planning and motorway design in preparation for his Highway Development Survey, 1937 for Greater London published in 1938. He served as President of the Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1938-9.
Bressey was born in Wanstead, Essex (now in the London Borough of Redbridge), the son of architect John Thomas Bressey and Elizabeth Bressey (née Farrow). He was educated at Forest School, Walthamstow and in France and Germany before starting work in his father's practice in the City of London, becoming a partner in 1896. When his father retired, he succeeded him as surveyor to the Wanstead Urban District and continued the practice.
Bressey married Margeret Francis Hill in 1902 and the couple had two sons.
At the start of World War I, Bressey was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and spent time in France and Flanders constructing military roads. In 1916 he became a staff officer in the army's roads directorate, eventually holding the position of Assistant Director of Roads and attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel before he left the army in November 1919. For his war service, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and received the Croix de Chevalier of the French Légion d'honneur.
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