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Thomas Telford
Scottish civil engineer (1757–1834)
Thomas TelfordFRS 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. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed the 'Colossus of Roads' (a pun on the Colossus of Rhodes), and, reflecting his command of all types of civil engineering in the early 19th century, he was elected as the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a post he held for 14 years until his death.
Using recent research into the history of consulting engineering as a background, this paper considers what Telford's surviving papers tell us about his income.The town of Telford in Shropshire was named after him.
Early career
Telford was born on 9 August 1757, at Glendinning, a hill farm three miles (five kilometres) east of Eskdalemuir Kirk, in the rural parish of Westerkirk, in Eskdale, Dumfriesshire.
His father John Telford, a shepherd, died