Person Macneill; Sir; John Benjamin (c 1793 - 1880) Macneill John Benjamin Sir MacNeill c 1793 - 1880 British Male County Louth, Ireland c 1793 Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London 02 March 1880 Burial: Brompton Cemetery, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Surbiton; Cromwell Road, London; Highgate, London (1838)

Civil engineer 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 Son of Torquil P MacNeill, of Mount Pleasant, county Louth Fellow 05/04/1838 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Authority: Altname from DNB International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 c 1793 - 2 Mar 1880 NA6758 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 02/04/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/100957466 f3043405-6ebd-40fa-bdb2-8382f5eaf4aa