Rennie
JOHN, an English civil engineer; born in Phantassie, Scotland, June 7, 1761; educated at Dunbar and Edinburgh. He labored for some time as a workman in the employment of a millwright. He was afterward employed in London in the construction of machinery. Here his reputation rapidly increased, till he was regarded as standing at the head of the civil engineers of Great Britain. He built or designed numerous bridges, canals, docks, and harmerous bridges, canals, docks, and harbors; among others, London Bridge the Lancaster Canal, and the Avon and East and West India Docks, and docks dame Charpentier and Her Children" York); and the portraits of his contem- (1878, Metropolitan Museum, New York); and the portraits of his contem-