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John Rennie 1761-1821, British civil engineer. In London he designed the Waterloo (1811-17) and Southwark (1815-19) bridges. London Bridge, also designed by him, was built (1824-31) by his son, Sir John Rennie, 1794-1874, who was knighted on its completion.

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Rennie, John (1761–1821). Millwright and civil engineer from Phantassie (Lothian). Rennie learned millwrighting from Andrew Meikle, but added an academic education at Edinburgh, before his first major project, Watt's Albion Mills in London (1784–8). He continued to advise on mills, but became primarily a civil engineer—of canals, the Kennet and Avon (1810) and Rochdale (1804); bridges, famously Waterloo (1817), Southwark (1819), and London (1831); BellRock lighthouse (1810); and numerous dock and harbour works, London (1805), Holyhead (completed 1824), and the massive breakwater at Plymouth (from 1811).

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