| Authorised form of name | Macneill; Sir; John Benjamin (c 1793 - 1880) |
| Other forms of surname | MacNeill |
| Dates | c 1793 - 1880 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | County Louth, Ireland |
| Date of birth | c 1793 |
| Place of death | Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London |
| Date of death | 02 March 1880 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Brompton Cemetery |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
| Activity | Career:
Served in Louth militia; employed by Thomas Telford (FRS 1829) in road and bridge building; set up as consulting engineer with offices in Whitehall Place, London and Glasgow (c 1834); built railways in Scotland; experimented with canal boat traction; developed a system called 'section-planography' (by 1837); Professor of civil engineering, Trinity College, Dublin (1842-1852); became blind
Honours:
Kt 1844
Memberships:
FRAS; MRIA
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/04/1838 |
| Relationships | Son of Torquil P MacNeill, of Mount Pleasant, county Louth |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Authority:
Altname from DNB |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/100957466 |
| Code | NA6758 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1838/21 | Macneill, Sir John Benjamin: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/002912 | MacNeill, Sir John Benjamin | nd |
| MC/8/286 | Letter from John [Benjamin] MacNeill, 7 Kensington Square, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 28 December 1868 |
| MC/8/287 | Letter from John [Benjamin] MacNeill, 7 Kensington Square, to General [Edward] Sabine, President of the Royal Society | 28 December 1868 |
| MC/8 | Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1867-1869 |