{{Short description|British artist, surveyor, and engineer}} {{distinguish|Samuel Breeze}} {{EngvarB|date=March 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} '''Samuel Charles Brees''' ({{circa}} 1810 – 5 May 1865) was a British artist, surveyor and engineer.

He served an apprenticeship with a London architect then trained as a civil engineer in Bristol under G.W.Buck and Robert Stephenson. He designed the greater part of the London to Birmingham line. <ref name="DNZB Brees">{{DNZB|Minson|Marian|1b31|Samuel Charles Brees|1 December 2011}}</ref>

Between 1837 and 1847 he published a four volume series on Railway Practice, which is considered one of the foremost sources of contemporary information on civil engineering related to early railways and rolling stock, and was illustrated with more than 250 folding and double paged plates. <ref>{{cite web |last1=Brees |first1=Samuel Charles |title=Railway Practice, First Series |url=https://archive.org/details/firstseriesofrai14bree |website=Internet Archive |access-date=27 March 2025}}</ref>

He was employed by the New Zealand Company as principal surveyor and engineer from 1842 to 1845.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baker |first=Matiu |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125817596 |title=Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tūmatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa: The Shadow of Tūmatauenga, The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa |last2=Cooper |first2=Catherine Elizabeth |last3=Fitzgerald |first3=Michael |last4=Rice |first4=Rebecca |date=2024-03-01 |publisher=Te Papa Press |pages=58-59 |language=English}}</ref> He succeeded William Mein Smith in this role. Brees died of heart disease at sea on the ''La Hogue'' off Blackwall, London.<ref name="DNZB Brees">{{DNZB|Minson|Marian|1b31|Samuel Charles Brees|1 December 2011}}</ref>

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