Rennie

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

GEORGE, an English civil engineer, eldest son of John Rennie; born in Surrey, England, Jan. 3, 1791; Renierinæ, with 12 species. of educated at St. Paul's School, London, and at Edinburgh University. In 1811 he became associated with his father in business, and on his father's death with his brother John. He constructed great naval works at Sebastopol, Nicolaiev, Odessa, Cronstadt, and in the principal ports of England and, built several English and continental railways and was the author of important works on engineering. He died March 30, 1866. gineer; 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 harbors; among others, London Bridge across the Thames, the Crinan Canal, the Lancaster Canal, and the Avon and Kennet Canal; the London Docks, the East and West India Docks, and docks at Hull, Greenock, Dublin; the harbors Berwick, Howth, and Newhaven; dockyards at London, Oct. 16, 1821. Virginia and Tr Truckee, and the Nevada, California, and Oregon railroads. It is Pop. (1910) 10,867; (1920) 12,016. French figure and landscape painter; upon china and porcelain. After studydame Charpentier and Her Children" (1878, Metropolitan Museum, New York); and the portraits of his contemporaries Monet and Sisley.