Abernethy

James, a Scotch civil engineer, born in Aberdeen in 1815. As a boy he a isted his father on the extension of the London docks, and afterward designed and built the lock and dock at Aberdeen, the docks at Swansea, Newport, Cardiff and Hull, and the Cavour canal in Italy; | designed the accepted plan for the improvement of the Danube at Vienna; reclaimed Lake Aboukir, in Egypt, and proposed the Manchester ship canal and was its consulting oe. He was the first to apply hydraulic power for bc | lock-gates, Abernethy, -John, an eminent English surgeon, founder of the School of St. Bartholomew’s; born in London April 3, 1764. He died at Enfield, April 28, 1831.