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William Jessop (23 January 1745 - 18 November 1814) was a noted English civil engineer, particularly famed for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Jessop was born in Devonport, Devon in 1745, the son of a shipwright known to leading civil engineer John Smeaton through his work on the Eddystone Lighthouse.

When his father died, William Jessop was taken on as a pupil by John Smeaton (who also acted as Jessop’s guardian), working on various canal schemes in Yorkshire.

After working for some years as Smeaton's assistant, Jessop increasingly began to work as an engineer in his own right.

In 1790, he founded (with fellow engineer Benjamin Outram) the Butterley Iron Works in Derbyshire to manufacture (amongst other things) cast-iron edge rails – a design Jessop had used successfully on a horse-drawn railway scheme for coal wagons in Loughborough, Leicestershire (1789).

From 1784 to 1805 Jessop lived in Newark in Nottinghamshire, where he twice served as town mayor.

William's son, Josias Jessop (d 1826) was also a noted canal engineer; he also is credited with surveying and building the Cromford and High Peak Railway.

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