William Glennie
William Glennie (c1758-1856)
Engineer for the Box Tunnel
c.1798 Born in Camberwell, Surrey[1]
1833 Married at Bitton, Glos., to Elizabeth Catherine Barker
1841 Living at Box: Wm Glennie 40, Lieut RN, civil engineer, with Elizabeth Catherine Glennie 30, Walter Henry Glennie 6, Harriott Mary Glennie 5, William Glennie 3, Catherine Sophia Glennie 1[2]
c.1845 Resident-Engineer for the South Devon Railway.
1851 Living at 23 Devonshire Terrace, Plymouth: William Glennie (age 53 born Camberwell), Lieut RN half pay. With Catherine E. Glennie (age 45 born Southwark) and seven children; William Glennie (age 13 born Bitton, Glos); Catherine S. Glennie (age 11 born Bitton, Glos); Isabella M. Glennie (age 9 born Sampford Arundel, Som.); Alexander W. Glennie (age 7 born Sampford Arundel, Som.); Mary E. Glennie (age 5 born Dawlish); and Margaret G. Glennie (age 2 born Plymouth). Three servants.[3]
1856 June 20th. Died in Stoke Damerel.[4] 'On the 20th inst., at Stoke, Lieut. William Glennie, R.N., aged 59. The deceased was a gentleman of considerable skill as an engineer, and was for many years engaged in the superintendence of the works upon the South Devon and Cornwall lines of railway, of which Mr. I. K. Brunel was the engineer in chief. ..'[5]
1856 June 26th. Buried at Bitton, Gloucestershire.