John Benjamin Macneill ( c 1793 - 1880 )

Birth: County Louth, Ireland (c 1793) Death: Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London (02 March 1880) Burial: Brompton Cemetery Profession: 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 'sectio-planography' (by 1837); Professor of civil engineering, Trinity College, Dublin (1842-1852); became blind Honours: Kt 1844 Memberships: FRAS; MRIA Membership: Fellow Election Date: 5/04/1838.