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Abernethy, James - An engineer who played a part in starting the Manchester Ship Canal.
Ainslie, John - Surveyor.
Allam, Samuel - Engineer of Spalding.
Andrew, Mark - River engineer from Knottingley
Aram, John - Surveyed the River Nar
Aris, Joseph - Surveyor
Armstrong, John Colonel, - Surveyor
Atkinson, George 1 - Engineer
Atkinson, George 2 - Surveyor
Atkinson, Joseph 1 - Took part in the survey of the River Don in 1722.
Atkinson, Joseph 2 - Appointed engineer of the Barnsley Canal in 1823
Atkyns, Richard - Surveyor
Atwater, Bishop, - Responsible for the cleansing of the Fossdyke in the reign of Henry I.
Austin, James - Surveyor
Baird, Hugh - Engineer who worked on the Crinan, Ulverston and Forth & Clyde canals.
Barber, E S - Engineer of the Monmouthshire Canal
Barnes, James - Engineer.
Bartholomew, Charles - Engineer
Bartholomew, Thomas Hammond - Engineer
Bartholomew, William Hammond - Engineer.
Bayley, William - Engineer of the Exeter Canal.
Baynes, George - A surveyor's assistant working around 1826.
Bean, William - Engineer of Derbyshire.
Beardmore, Nicholas - Engineer and surveyor.
Beauchamp, John - Surveyor of West Penard
Beck, Richard - Surveyor.
Beechey, Captain, - Engineer
Bennet, William - Engineer
Bentley, George - Engineer.
Berry, Henry - Engineer.
Bevan, Benjamin - Engineer.
Bevan, Benjamin, junior - Engineer
Bidder, G P - Engineer.
Blackwell, John - Engineer.
Boddington, R - Engineer.
Bolton, Thomas - Surveyor
Bond, W - Surveyor from Axminster.
Booth, John - Engineer.
Bowdler, Astley - Engineer.
Box, John - Surveyor.
Bradford, Henry - Engineer and surveyor.
Bradley, Thomas - Engineer.
Brassey, William - Engineer.
Brindley, James - Engineer.
Brooks, W A - Engineer of the Tees Navigation Company.
Brown, Nicholas - Engineer.
Brown, Thomas - Engineer.
Bruce, G B - Canal engineer
Bruff, Peter - Engineer.
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom - Engineer.
Brunel, Marc Isambard Sir, - Engineer.
Brunton, John - Tramroad engineer.
Brunton, Robert - Tramroad engineer.
Buck, George W - Canal engineer.
Buck, Henry - Canal engineer.
Buck, Richard - Surveyor and engineer.
Bull, John - Surveyor.
Bull, Samuel - Engineer.
Bull, William - Canal engineer.
Bullivant, - Surveyor.
Burcham, Charles - Civil Engineer and Land Surveyor.
Burdett, P P - Surveyor.
Burke, Joseph - Engineer.
Burton, Ralph - Surveyor
Carne, John - Engineer.
Carr, Robert - Engineer.
Cartwright, Robert - Surveyor.
Cartwright, Thomas - Engineer of the Worcester & Birmingham from 1791 to 1807.
Cartwright, William - Engineer.
Case, - Engineer who made proposals for improvement to the Nene im 1758.
Castle, Richard - An architect and Irish canal builder between 1731 and 1736.
Chamberlain, John - Surveyor of Chester.
Chapman, William - Engineer.
Chinn, Mr, - Built half, or flash, locks on the river Lug.
Clark, Alexander - Engineer.
Clark, Dudley - Engineer.
Clark, Edwin - Engineer of Clark, Stansfield & Clark, consulting engineers of Westminster.
Clark, H W - Engineer to the Nene Catchment Board.
Clark, John - Surveyor for the River Lee.
Clark, William Tierney - Engineer who worked on canals and suspension bridges.
Clayton, J & H - Surveyors.
Clegram, W B - Engineer.
Clegram, William - Engineer.
Clowes, Josiah - Canal engineer
Coad, Robert - Engineer.
Coates, Richard - Engineer.
Cockshutt, James - Engineer.
Congreve, William Sir, - Engineer
Coode, John Sir, - Engineer.
Copeland, John - Engineer.
Cranston, James - Engineer of Hereford.
Crawley, William - Engineer of Mickle Trafford, Cheshire.
Creassy, James - Engineer.
Creer, A - Engineer to the city of York.
Crosley, William, Junior - Engineer who worked on many canals.
Crosley, William, Senior - Surveyor and engineer from Brighouse.
Crossley, William - Engineer of the Ashby Canal.
Crow, Joseph - Surveyor.
Cubitt, William - Canal engineer of the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal.
Cundy, N W - Engineer.
Curr, John - Engineer who introduced the plateway as an improvement to tramways.
Dadford, James - Engineer on the Glouster & Berkeley Canal from 1795 until 1800.
Dadford, John - Engineer. Son of Thomas Dadford senior.
Dadford junior, Thomas - Canal Engineer and surveyor. Son of Thomas Dadford senior.
Dadford senior, Thomas - Canal engineer and surveyor. Father of John and Thomas junior.
Davidson, Matthew - Engineer who worked with Telford on the Ellesmere and Caledonian canals.
Davidson, Robert - Engineer and General Manager of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
Davies, Arthur - Surveyor.
Davies, David - Surveyor.
Davis, Benjamin - Engineer.
Dean, Charles - Surveyor and engineer.
Dean, J - Surveyor.
Denson, Thomas - Engineer.
Denton, E Bailey - Engineer.
Dickenson, Robert - Engineer.
Dickinson, Robert - Surveyor of Gargrave.
Dickinson, Samuel - Surveyor.
Dodd, Barrodall Robert - Surveyor.
Dodd, George - Engineer, Rennine's assistant on the building of Waterloo Bridge.
Dodd, Ralph - Engineer.
Donkin, Bryan - Engineer.
Driver, A & C - Surveyors.
Duncombe, John - Engineer of Oswestry.
Dunderdale, John - Engineer.
Dunn, William - Engineer.
Dunsford, William - Engineer.
Dutens, - French engineer.
Dyson, Thomas - Engineer who worked for the Driffield Navigation and Keyingham Drainage.
Eastburn, Henry - Engineer.
Easton, Alexander - Engineer.
Easton, James - Surveyor.
Easton, John - Surveyor operating in the Taunton area.
Easton, Josiah - Engineer and Land Surveyor of Bradford-on-Tone.
Edgcumbe, John - Engineer.
Edson, Dennis - An engineer who worked on the Chester and Stourbridge Canals.
Edwards, George - An engineer of Lowestoft.
Edwards, Langley - Engineer
Elliott, James - Engineer.
Elmes, James - Engineer.
Elstobb, William - Engineer.
Esterbrook, Thomas - Surveyor.
Evans, John - Engineer.
Eyes, John - Surveyor and map maker.
Fairbank, William II - Surveyor of the Greasbrough (Park Gate) Canal in 1778.
Fairbank, William III - Engineer.
Featherstone, - Surveyor. Full name not known.
Felkin, William - Engineer.
Ferguson, John - Engineer.
Ferrier, Thomas - Engineer.
Filliter, Edward - Consulting engineer of Leeds.
FitzGibbon, Gerald - Engineer.
Fletcher, James - Engineer from Bradford.
Fletcher, Joseph - Engineer.
Fletcher, Samuel - Resident engineer of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal from 1795.
Fletcher, Thomas - Engineer.
Fletcher, William - Engineer.
Fowler, A F - Engineer.
Fowler, John - Engineer.
Fowler, William - Engineer.
Fowls, Samuel - Engineer.
Frost, Robert - Engineer.
Fulton, Hamilton H - Engineer.
Fulton, Robert - Engineer.
Gee, Jonathan - Engineer.
Gibbs, Joseph - Engineer.
Gibson, Thomas - Engineer.
Gilbert, James - Engineer.
Gilbert, John, junior - Carrier and engineer.
Gilbody, Arthur - Engineer.
Giles, Francis - Engineer.
Giles, Netlam - Surveyor.
Gilson, Robert - Surveyor.
Glynn, John, junior - Engineer.
Glynn, John, senior - Engineer.
Gott, John - Engineer.
Grantham, John - An engineer who worked for John Rennie on the Shannon.
Grantham, R B - Engineer.
Gravatt, William - Engineer.
Gray, Thomas - Surveyor to the Exeter corporation.
Green, James - West country canal engineer
Green, James (Birmingham) - Engineer and probably the father of the Westcountry engineer.
Green, James (Woolaton) - Engineer who worked for Lord Middleton at Woolaton.
Green, John - Engineer of Wroxham, Norfolk.
Green, Thomas - Engineer.
Griggs, James, junior - Engineer.
Griggs, James, senior - Engineer.
Grundy, John - Engineer.
Gunnery, John - Engineer.
Gwyn, John - Engineer.
Hadley, John - Engineer.
Hall, Edward - Engineer from the Dartford, Kent, area.
Hall, Matthew - Surveyor.
Hall, Richard - Surveyor.
Hall, Sydney - Engineer who was a pupil of George Edwards of Lowestoft then of William Cubitts.
Hall, W T - Engineer.
Hamnett, Richard - Surveyor from Somerset.
Handley, Charles - Engineer.
Hare, Edward - Engineer.
Harris, John - Engineer.
Hartley, Jesse - Engineer. He was surveyer and engineer of Liverpool Docks.
Hartley, Samuel - Engineer.
Haslehurst, Joseph - Engineer. A colliery engineer who worked at Chesterfield.
Hassard, Richard - Engineer.
Hawkshaw, John Sir, - Engineer.
Hawksley, T & C - Canal engineers
Henshall, Hugh - Engineer and brother-in-law of James Brindley.
Hill, Joseph - Engineer of Romsey. He was bankrupt in 1802.
Hill, Thomas - Engineer.
Hitchins, - Surveyor.
Hodgkinson, Charles - Engineer.
Hodgkinson, John - Engineer.
Hodgkinson, Samuel - Surveyor.
Hodskinson, John - engineer.
Hodskinson, Joseph - Engineer.
Hollinsworth, James - Engineer.
Holt, John - Surveyor.
Holt, Luke - Engineer
Hopkin, Evan - Engineer.
Hopkin, W E - Engineer.
Hopkin, William - Builder of Hopkin's Canal
Hore, John - Engineer.
Howard, Thomas - Engineer of the Bristol Dock company.
Hudson, John - Surveyor.
Humfrey, Charles - Engineer.
Hurd, Richard - Engineer of Cardiff.
Jackson, John - Engineer.
Jacobs, H - Surveyor of Birmingham.
James, William - Surveyor.
Jardine, Mr, - Civil engineer.
Jebb, George R - Engineer.
Jeffries, Mr, - Engineer.
Jenkin, Silvanus W - Engineer.
Jessop, Josias - Engineer.
Jessop, William - Canal Engineer of great repute.
Johnson, John - Engineer.
Jones, George - Engineer with the army and the Salisbury & Southampton Canal.
Jones, Samuel of Boston, - Engineer of Boston.
Jones, Samuel - Engineer.
Keeling, G W - Engineer of the Gloucester & Berkley Canal.
Kiddey, John - Engineer.
King, F - Surveyor.
King, William - Engineer and agent for the Duke of Rutland.
Kingdon, John - Engineer.
Kirkhouse, William - An engineer, first in mining, but later on canals including the Tennent Canal.
Labelye, Charles - Engineer.
Lapidge, Edward - Engineer.
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry - Engineer.
Lawton, John - Engineer.
Leach, Edmund - Surveyor.
Leatham, Isaac - Surveyor.
Leather, George, junior - Engineer.
Leather, George, senior - Engineer.
Leather, John - Engineer. Probably the son of George Leather junior.
Lees, Abraham - Engineer.
Lenny, I - Surveyor.
Lewis, Benjamin - Engineer.
Lingard, Edmund - Engineer.
Lingard, Thomas - Engineer on the Mersey & Irwell Navigation.
Locke, Joseph - Engineer.
Longbotham, John - Engineer.
Lovibond, Henry - Engineer.
Lowdon, John - Engineer of Snedshill.
Mackell, Robert - Engineer who surveyed the line of a proposed Scottish Canal with James Watt.
Maddicks, Thomas - Engineer.
Manning, Thomas - Engineer.
Marsh, C M - Engineer.
Marsh, Thomas E - Engineer.
Marten, H J - Engineer to the Severn Commission.
Martin, Abinus - Engineer.
Martin, Edward - Engineer.
Masters, Charles H - Surveyor.
Matthews, William Sir, - Engineer.
Maxwell, George - Engineer.
May, John - Engineer.
McNiven, Charles - Surveyor.
Melling, Richard - Surveyor.
Meyer, F J - Engineer.
Milbourn, Isaac - Engineer.
Millar, Archibald - Engineer from Dublin.
Miller, William - Engineer of Preston.
Millington, John - Engineer.
Mitchel, Joshua - Took part in the survey of the River Don in 1722.
Mitchell, James - Built weirs and locks on the Aire.
Moody, Charles - Surveyor.
Moon, Mr, - Engineer who was assistant to Thomas Morris on the Chester Canal in 1775.
Moon, John - Engineer.
Morgan, James - Engineer.
Morris, Thomas, junior - Engineer.
Morris, Thomas, Senior - Engineer.
Muir, Edwin - Engineer.
Murray, James - Surveyor.
Mylne, Robert - Engineer of the New River Company, architect and surveyor.
Needham, John - Engineer.
Newbold, Thomas - Engineer
Nickalls, Joseph - Engineer.
Nicolay, Lt-Col, - Engineer in charge of the Rye to Cliff End section of the Royal Military Canal.
Nightingale, John - Engineer on the Manchester, Bolton & Bury.
Nimmo, Alexander - Engineer.
Oldham, Hugh - Engineer.
Outram, Benjamin - Engineer.
Overton, George - Engineer.
Owen, Richard - Engineer from Flixton near Manchester.
Page, Joseph - Engineer.
Page, Thomas - Engineer.
Palmer, H R - Engineer.
Palmer, William - Engineer.
Parker, Joseph - Clerk of works of the Coventry Canal prior to 1770
Pear, Thomas - Engineer.
Percy, E T - Enginner.
Phillips, Richard - Engineer.
Pickard, Henry - Engineer.
Pinkerton, James - Canal contractor and engineer.
Pitt, William - Engineer.
Plowright, A H - Engineer.
Pontey, William - Engineer of Huddersfield.
Porter, Richard - Engineer.
Porter, Samuel - Engineer from Henley in Arden.
Potter, James - Engineer.
Potter, Peter - Surveyor.
Pownall, Robert - Surveyor.
Price, Edward - Engineer from Govilon.
Price, Henry H - Engineer.
Priddey, John - Engineer.
Provis, Henry - District engineer of the Grand Junction Canal from 1802 to 1816.
Provis, William Alexander - Engineer, surveyor and contractor on various Midlands canals.
Radford, William - Engineer.
Raistrick, John - Engineer.
Ralph, John - Engineer.
Rastrick, John Urpeth - Engineer.
Rayner, Frank - Engineer.
Rendel, James Meadows - Engineer.
Rennie, George - Engineer son of a famous father.
Rennie, John - Engineer born at Phantassie, East Lothian. Died in London.
Rennie, John Sir, - Engineer son of a famous father.
Reynolds, William - Engineer.
Rhodes, Thomas - Engineer.
Richardson, William - Engineer from Dudley.
Roberts, Charles - Engineer.
Robinson, Thomas - Surveyor and engineer.
Robson, Joseph - Engineer.
Rofe, Henry - Engineer.
Rowe, John - Engineer.
Royle, John - Engineer.
Rubie, Edward - Engineer.
Sandeman, J Watt - Engineer.
Sandys, William Sir, - Engineer.
Saner, John Arthur - Engineer of the Weaver Navigation from 1885.
Saxon, W - Engineer.
Scott, Matthias - Engineer.
Scribo, James - Engineer.
Scruton, William - Engineer.
Servant, Daniel - Engineer.
Sharpe, Edmund - Engineer.
Shearn, Thomas - Surveyor.
Sheasby, Thomas, junior - Engineer and contractor.
Sheasby, Thomas, senior - Canal Engineer and Contractor.
Shelton, Samuel - Surveyor.
Sheriff, James - Surveyor.
Sherratt, William - Engineer of the firm Bateman & Sherratt of Salford.
Simcock, Samuel - Engineer, surveyor and one of Brindley's assistants.
Smeaton, John - Engineer.
Smith, George - Surveyor of the Basingstoke Canal.
Smith, James - Engineer of Reading.
Smith, John - Engineer.
Smith, John - Engineer of St Helen's.
Smith, John, junior - Engineer from Attercliffe, Yorkshire, and son of the River Don engineer.
Smith, John, senior - Engineer. Originally a carpenter from Brightside, Sheffield.
Smith, William - Surveyor.
Snape, John - Surveyor.
Sorocold, George - Engineer.
Sowerby, William - Engineer.
Squires, John - Engineer.
Stanley, Walmsley - Engineer.
Stansfeld, A W - Engineer.
Staveley, Christopher, junior - Engineer.
Staveley, Christopher, Senior - Engineer.
Staveley, Edward - Engineer.
Steers, Thomas - An army officer from Kent. Surveyor and engineer of the Mersey & Irwell.
Stephenson, George - The famous railway engineer.
Stephenson, Robert - Railway engineer.
Stevenson, Robert - Engineer.
Stickney, Robert - Engineer.
Stratford, Ferdinando - Engineer from Gloucester.
Stratford, William - Engineer.
Surbey, Thomas - Engineer.
Sutcliffe, John - A north-country engineer.
Sutherland, Alexander - Engineer.
Swansborough, William - Engineer.
Swinden, John - Surveyor.
Taverner, E G - Engineer to the Welland Catchment Board.
Taylor, Henry - Engineer.
Taylor, John - Engineer and manager of the Wheal Friendship copper mine.
Taylor, Joseph - Engineer.
Taylor, William - Surveyor.
Telford, Thomas - Engineer.
Thackray, Mr, - Engineer.
Thomas, Alfred - Surveyor with the Kidwelly & Llanelly Canal company.
Thomas, B J - Engineer.
Thomas, Gordon Cale - Grand Junction Canal engineer and designer of the Foxton inclined plane.
Thomas, Hurbert - Engineer of the Grand Junction Canal from 1864 until 1891.
Thompson, John - Engineer from Sheffield.
Thompson, William, junior - Engineer son of the Grand Junction Canal's northern district engineer.
Thompson, William, senior - Engineer.
Thomson, James - Engineer.
Timmins, Benjamin - Engineer.
Timperley, John - Resident engineer of the Aire & Calder Navigation.
Tolfield, Thomas - Engineer.
Townshend, Benjamin - Engineer.
Townshend, Thomas - Engineer.
Tozer, Mr, - Surveyor.
Trail, John - Irish canal engineer
Trevithick, Richard - Engineer best known for his steam engines.
Trew, John - Engineer of the Exeter Canal from 1563. From Glamorgan.
Trubshaw, Charles - Engineer.
Turner, Joseph - Engineer.
Turner, William - A Warrington architect who produced a route for the Ellesmere Canal in 1791.
Turpin, John - Engineer from Wisbech.
Underhill, William - Engineer.
Upton, John - Engineer.
Upton, May - Engineer.
Utting, Mr, - Engineer.
Varley, John - Engineer.
Vazie, Robert - Engineer.
Vermuyden, Cornelius Sir, - Engineer.
Vernon-Harcourt, L F - Engineer and author of "A Treatise on Rivers and Canals" (1882).
Vignoles, Charles - Engineer.
Walker, James - Engineer who reported on the Calidonian Canal in 1839.
Walker, Michael - Surveyor,
Walker, Ralph - Canal and railway engineer.
Walker, W - Engineer.
Walker, William - Engineer.
Watt, James - Engineer.
Webb, Francis W - Mecanical engineer for the London & North Western Railway (L.N.W.R).
Wedge, Charles - Surveyor.
Weldon, Robert - Engineer.
Wells, L B - Engineer.
Wells, William - Engineer.
Welsh, Edward - Engineer.
West, Thomas - Engineer.
Weston, Samuel - Contractor, surveyor and engineer working between 1770 and 1796.
Wharton, Mr, - Engineer of the Manchester & Salford Waterworks company.
White, R H - Engineer of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
White, William - Surveyor.
Whitewood, Issac - Engineer.
Whitmore, William - Engineer.
Whittenbury, William - A carpeter of Hertford and later the surveyor of the River Lee.
Whitworth, Robert - Canal engineer at one time assistant to James Brindley.
Whitworth, Robert, junior - Engineer.
Whitworth, William - Engineer.
Williams, Edward Leader Sir, - Advised that the Manchester Ship Canal should be a non-tidal waterway.
Williams, Edward Leader senior - Engineer to the Severn Commissioners.
Williams, Henry - Shropshire canal surveyor active from about 1788 until 1839.
Williams, John - Engineer.
Williams, Philip - Engineer and a one time Agent for the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal Company.
Wilson, J W - Engineer.
Witton, Philip Henry - Engineer.
Wood, Frederick - Engineer.
Wood, John - Engineer.
Wood, Thomas - Engineer.
Woodhouse, John - Engineer from Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, 1 mile southwest of Nuneaton.
Wright, Elias - Engineer.
Wright, John R - Surveyor.
Wylde, Samuel - Engineer of the Bridgewater Canal company.
Wyman, Mr, - Engineer of Higham Ferrers.
Yarranton, Andrew - Engineer.
Yarranton, Robert - Engineer.
Yeoman, Thomas - One of the earliest civil engineers.
Young, George - Surveyor from Worcester.
Text and photographs copyright of Jim Shead.