William Willcocks
British civil engineer
Died when: 79 years 305 days (958 months)Star Sign: Libra
Sir William Willcocks KCMG (27 September 1852 in India – 28 July 1932 in Cairo, Egypt) was a British civil engineer during the high point of the British Empire.
He was an irrigation engineer who proposed and built the first Aswan Dam, the scale of which had never been attempted previously.
He later undertook other major irrigation projects in South Africa and in Arab regions of the dying Ottoman Empire.
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