William Bindon Blood
William Bindon Blood (20 January 1817 – 31 January 1894) was an Irish civil engineer.
Life
He was born on the family estate in Cranagher,[1] near Ennis in County Clare, to Bindon Blood (1775–1855) and his second wife Harriet Bagot (1780–1835).[2]
His father moved to 22 Queen Street in central Edinburgh in 1829.[3][4]
Bindon Blood went to secondary school in Edinburgh before returning to Ireland and earning a BA (and Gold Medal) in mathematics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1838.[5][6] That degree had been introduced in 1835, and engineering wasn't introduced at TCD until a few years later.
His career was spent as an engineer, first on railways in the south of Scotland starting in 1840.[6] Later, he was employed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as a civil engineer during the construction of the Great Western Railway in England,[2] ending the decade as resident engineer on the Birmingham & Oxford Railway Company.[6]
From 1850 to 1860 he was the professor of
W. Bindon Blood was also a landlord and a Justice of the Peace.[7] He died of acute bronchitis, at Cranagher, in 1894, having survived three assassination attempts a few years earlier.[8]
Family
In 1841 in
He was a pioneer in the early days of cycling,[8] and patented a popular lightweight 'Dublin tricycle' in 1876.[9]
References
- ^ Estate: Blood (Roxton & Cranagher) Landed Estates Database: NUI Galway
- ^ a b c Biographical Notices of Clare people in various newspapers 1751-1946 Clare County Library
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1829
- ^ "Bindon Blood Esq. 1775".
- ^ An Introduction to the Blood Family dolmetsch online
- ^ ISBN 1851825274
- ^ William Bindon Blood The Peerage by Darryl Lundy, Person Page 28250
- ^ a b "William Bindon Blood". History at Galway. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ^ The History of the Bicycle National Museum of Ireland