Civil engineer. Born 27 Stamford Street. In London, worked on Waterloo, Southwark and London Bridges. President of the Institute of Civil Engineers, 1845-8. Died at Bengeo, near Hertford.
Easy to confuse with his father of the same name, also a civil engineer. The father did the design work on a number of projects which the son saw through to construction. The name panel at IC may refer to either.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir John Rennie
The pale plaque between the two dark ones carries some near-illegible etching...
{Below an etching of the Rennie bridge:} London bridge 1825 - 1967 These gran...
Nancy's Steps These steps and arch are surviving fragments of the 1831 London...
Born Kelso. Structural engineer. Worked in shipbuilding and boiler design. Died at a relative's house at Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey.
Professor of engineering. FRS.  Born Cheshire.  Studied the strength of columns of various materials and pioneered the application of mathematics to structural design.  Late in life his mental abil...
Civil engineer. FRS.  Born Scotland into a long line of civil engineers.  In London worked on: Metropolitan Railway extension Whitechapel tp Bow and Kew Bridge.  Died at his home, The Anchorage, Ha...
Inventor and industrialist. Born in Csorna, Hungary. Worked in Vienna before emigrating to America. Returned to Vienna where he entered a partnership making equipment for hectographs (an early form...
We don't want to go very deeply into this subject but according to this report:Â Holborn and Finsbury Divisions of Sewers. Report of the Surveyor [J. Roe] to the Court held 27th January 1843 ... By ...
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