Isambard

Today is the 204th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, perhaps the greatest engineer who ever lived.

There are several biographies of Brunel but I should like to see one of his father Sir Marc Isambard Brunel who was French, got caught up in the French Revolution, escaped to America then Britain where he married an English girl (Sophie Kingdom) he had met in France, got bailed out of a debtors' prison by Wellington's Government who were scared he would work for the Russians, and got a knighthood (for building the Rotherhithe Tunnel) which Isambard never did.

All very strange.