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Authorised form of nameRennie; John (1761 - 1821)
Dates1761 - 1821
NationalityBritish
Place of birthPhantassie, Haddingtonshire, Scotland
Date of birth07 June 1761
Place of deathHis house in Stamford Street, London
Date of death04 October 1821
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
St Paul's Cathedral, London
OccupationCivil engineer
ActivityEducation:
Edinburgh University (1780-1783)
Career:
Worked as a millwright; entered works of Boulton and Watt, Soho, Birmingham (1784), where he designed machinery for Albion flour mill, Blackfriars, London; started business as an engineer in Holland Street, Blackfriars; work included building canals, draining fens, designing London docks; built Waterloo and Southwark bridges, London, and designed London bridge (completed by his son); constructed breakwater, Plymouth
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election29/03/1798
RelationshipsYoungest son of James Rennie, farmer; father of George Rennie (FRS 1822) and of Sir John Rennie (FRS 1823)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Sir John Craig, 'The Royal Society and the Royal Mint' in NR 1964 vol 19 pp 156-167
A W Skempton, 'The Publication of Smeaton's Reports' in NR 1971 vol 26 pp 135-155
Susanne Fisher, review of William Huddart, Unpathed Waters: Account of the Life and Times of Joseph Huddart, FRS in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 120-122
R L Hills, 'John Watt's Map of the Clyde' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 63-71
CodeNA6914
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/003791Rennie, Johnnd
CB/1/6/48Letter from John Rennie, 27 Stamford Street to Charles Blagden, at the House of Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square25 July 1805
EC/1797/19Rennie, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/003790Rennie, Johnnd
CB/1/6/49Letter from John Rennie, 27 Stamford Street to Charles Blagden, at Sir Joseph Banks's, Soho Square14 August 1817
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