Benjamin Blyth II

Civil engineer, Project participant

1849 – 1917

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Who was Benjamin Blyth II?

Benjamin Hall Blyth II FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer.

Blyth, who was born in St Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, was the eldest of the nine children of the railway engineer Benjamin Blyth. He studied at Merchiston Castle School between 1860 and 1864 before studying for a Master of Arts degree from Edinburgh University.

After the death of both parentsBenjamin Blyth in 1866 and Mary Dudgeon Wright in 1868 – Blyth and his siblings were brought up by their mother's sister, Elizabeth Scotland Wright.

Following his father's death Blyth entered the family engineering consultancy and became a partner five years later. Blyth served as a consultant to the North British Railway and the Great North of Scotland Railway and served in an advisory capacity to the British Army with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps. In 1872 he married Millicent Taylor with whom he had a son, Benjamin Edward, who died in infancy, and a daughter, Elsie Winifred. He became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1877, being elected to its council in 1900. He served as vice-president in 1911 and in 1914 became the first practising Scottish engineer to serve as president. On 7 February 1898 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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Born
May 25, 1849
Edinburgh
Nationality
  • Scotland
Profession
Education
  • University of Edinburgh
Lived in
  • Edinburgh
Died
May 13, 1917
North Berwick

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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