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Robert Maitland Brereton
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"Robert Brereton" redirects here. For another English railway engineer, see Robert Pearson Brereton.
Robert Maitland Brereton (2 January 1834 – 7 December 1911) was an English railway engineer in India. In the United States he helped secure the first Act of Congress for the irrigation of California.
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