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Authorised form of nameRennie; Sir; John (1794 - 1874)
Dates1794 - 1874
NationalityBritish
Place of birth27 Stamford Street, Blackfriars Road, London, England
Date of birth30 August 1794
Place of deathBengeo, near Hertford, Hertfordshire
Date of death03 September 1874
OccupationEngineer
ActivityEducation:
Dr Charles Burney's (FRS 1802) school, Greenwich
Career:
Entered his father's business; Assistant to Resident Engineer of Waterloo Bridge, London (1813); assisted his father building Southwark Bridge (1815); after his father's death, carried on the business in partnership with his brother, George; built London Bridge from his father's designs; Engineer to the Admiralty; worked on harbour construction and drainage
Honours:
Kt 1831
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1823
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1834-1836
RelationshipsSecond son of John Rennie (FRS 1798); brother of George Rennie (FRS 1822)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1874-1875 vol 23 p x
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/91800388
CodeNA7490
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MC/10/149Letter from C Slolleton [?] Rennie, 26 Euston Square, to the Royal Society9 September 1874
EC/1823/01Rennie, Sir John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/10/154Letter from Charles Manley, Honorary Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 25 Great George Street, Westminster, to [Joseph Dalton] Hooker, President of the Royal Society5 October 1874
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
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