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Thomas Telford FRS FRSE (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels.
Thomas Telford (born August 9, 1757, near Westerkirk, Dumfries, Scotland—died September 2, 1834, London, England) was a versatile Scottish civil engineer whose crowning achievement was the design and construction (1819–26) of the Menai Bridge in Wales.
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Aug 9, 2021 · According to research by Alan Thomas Howls, Telford attended, together with 23 other members of Salopian Lodge, one of the first Provincial meetings ever held in Shropshire, at Whitchurch, on...
Thomas Telford was born on a sheep farm in Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire in Scotland on 9 August 1757 to shepherd John Telford and his wife Janet (nee Jackson). He was raised mainly by his mother, after his dad died four months after his birth. He was the second Thomas Telford in the family, but his elder brother of the same name died in infancy.
Born on the borders of England and Scotland on 9 August 1757, Thomas Telford never knew his shepherd father. He dies four months after the boy is born. His single mother can’t afford to raise him so relatives do.
For sure it all started in Westerkirk ... perhaps with William & Sarah - Guliemus/William Tailforth/Telfer married Sarah Richardson on Friday 22 April 1720 in Arthuret, Cumberland. Guliemus/William Tailforth/Telfer was born around 1708 and living in Langholm between 1735-39.
Thomas Telford, born in 1757, was a pioneering Scottish civil engineer, architect, and stonemason, renowned for revolutionizing road and bridge construction.
