Civil engineer. Born 27 Stamford Street. In London, worked on Waterloo, Southwark and London Bridges. President of the Institute of Civil Engineers, 1845-8. Died at Bengeo, near Hertford.
Easy to confuse with his father of the same name, also a civil engineer. The father did the design work on a number of projects which the son saw through to construction. The name panel at IC may refer to either.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir John Rennie
The pale plaque between the two dark ones carries some near-illegible etching...
{Below an etching of the Rennie bridge:} London bridge 1825 - 1967 These gran...
Nancy's Steps These steps and arch are surviving fragments of the 1831 London...
Succeeded Lewis Angell as Borough Engineer for West Ham Council. Held the post in 1905.
Reconstructed & widened in 1969 replacing a 28 ft. wide cast iron bridge built in 1864.
Electrical engineer. Born John Ambrose Fleming in a house named Greenfield in Lancaster. Best known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube. He was also an accomplished photographer...
Since Tudor times this organisation was responsible for the drainage of the low-lying parts of the whole of the then built-up area of South London. 1848 - subsumed into the Metropolitan Commission...
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