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        1. William Cubitt est un ingénieur civil britannique né à Dilham, district de North Norfolk, le 9 octobre , et mort à Clapham Common, borough londonien de.
        2. Sir William Cubitt.
        3. Sir William Cubitt ( - ), English civil engineer born in Norfolk, designer of Bute Docks in Cardiff, the Southeastern Railway and.
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          5. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cubitt, William (1785-1861)

          ​CUBITT, Sir WILLIAM (1785–1861), civil engineer, son of Joseph Cubitt of Bacton Wood, near Dilham, Norfolk, miller, by his wife, Miss Lubbock, was born at Dilham in 1785, where the small amount of education afforded him was received at the village school.

          Subsequently his father removed to South Repps, and William at an early age was employed in the mill, but in 1800 was apprenticed to James Lyon, a cabinet-maker at Stalham, from whom he parted after a rude service of four years.

          At Bacton Wood Mills he again worked with his father in 1804, and in his leisure constructed a machine for splitting hides. Determined at length to commence life on his own account, he joined an agricultural machine maker named Cook, at Swanton, where they constructed horse threshing machines and other implements, and he became celebrated for the accuracy and finish of the patterns made by him for the iron castings of these