Family Background
R.M. Brereton came from a Norfolk family that produced other notable Victorian engineers Cuthbert A. Brereton (Sir John Wolfe Barry's partner) and R.P. Brereton, Brunel's chief assistant.
He married Alice Fairchild of Waterloo, New York, and together they had four children. In retirement he lived in Portland, Oregon.
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