the construction of the harbours at Holyhead and Portland works, which go some way to justify the linking of his name with Smeaton, Rennie, and Telford. Rendel contributed several valuable papers to the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He married Catherine Jane Harris, who died on 18 July 1884, aged 87. His third son, Stuart Rendel, at one time managing partner in London of Sir William Armstrong's engineering firm, was MP for Montgomeryshire from 1880 to 1894, and was raised to the peerage as Lord Rendel in 1895. Other children include: Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel (1829–1918) – civil engineer George Wightwick Rendel (1833–1902) – civil engineer Emily Frances Rendel (1836–1897) married Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen in 1862. Emily Catherine Rendel (1840–1921) married Clement Francis Wedgwood in 1866 Hamilton Owen Rendel (1843–1902) A nephew, James Murray Dobson, became resident engineer of the Buenos Aires harbour works in the 1880s and 1890s. The firm he started became a partnership called Rendel Palmer & Tritton in the early 20th century and trades today as Rendel Ltd. References 1799 births 1856 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers Millwrights Harbour engineers English civil engineers People from Okehampton 19th-century British engineers