There is a very persuasive argument for nominating Sir Joseph Bazalgette as Britain's Man of The Millennium. So far as I can remember he didn't even figure in the top fifty when such lists were being compiled five years ago. While Newton, Brunel, Shakespeare, Darwin, Chaplin, Lennon and Churchill jostled for what motor-racing calls Pole Position, Bazalgette (to change metaphorical horses midstream) didn't so much as show for a place.
So who was Sir Joseph? Well, he was the man who...
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