George Buchanan (engineer, born 1790)

George Buchanan
Bornc. 1790
Died30 October 1852
NationalityScottish
EducationUniversity of Edinburgh
OccupationEngineer
SpouseCharlotte Barnard (sister-in-law of Michael Faraday)
Engineering career
Disciplinecivil
InstitutionsPresident of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
14 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, where Buchanan had a flat

George Buchanan FRSE FRSSA (c. 1790, Montrose – 30 October 1852) was a Scottish civil engineer and land surveyor who worked primarily on bridges and harbours. He supervised the construction of the Scotland Street tunnel and the Granton to Edinburgh tunnel.[1]

  1. ^ "Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 19 September 2010.

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