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Name:
(Sir) John Benjamin MacNeill
Designation :
Engineer
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Exact DOB:
08/02/1925
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DOB (1st 'Or' Year):
1792
DOB (2nd 'Or' Year):
1793
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03/02/1880
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Bio Notes :
Sir John Benjamin MacNeill was born in 1792 or 1793 in County Louth, Ireland. He began his career as a surveyor but on meeting Thomas Telford during a visit to England in 1820, he was inspired to become a civil engineer. He worked as Telford's chief assistant for ten years, and established his own consultancy following Telford's death in 1834, practising in London and Glasgow. He became an eminent engineer in his own right, principally involved in railway work. In the late 1830s and early 1840s he focused on work in his native Ireland, and he became a noted teacher, being appointed first Professor of the Practice of Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. At the end of his life he returned to London, dying blind and impoverished at his son's house in Cromwell Road, south-west London on 2 March 1880.
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Addresses
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London England
Private
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London England
Business
Glasgow Scotland
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Eire
Business
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Employees or Pupils
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Duncan MacFarlane
202560
Before 1868
Before 1868
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References
Bibliographic References
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Title
Date
Publisher
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Fleming, Diarmaid
Macneill: remembering engineering's forgotton hero
2001
'New Civil Engineer' magazine, London, 19 July 2001, pp24-5
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