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William Bindon Blood
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'''William Bindon Blood''' (20 January 181731 January 1894) was an Irish civil engineer. He was born on the family estate in Cranagher,<ref name=cran>[https://ift.tt/2A9M8v9 Estate: Blood (Roxton & Cranagher)] Landed Estates Database: NUI Galway</ref> near [[Ennis]] in [[County Clare]], to Bindon Blood (1775–1855) and his second wife Harriet Bagot (1780–1835).<ref name=clare/>
==Education and career==
Bindon Blood went to secondary school in [[Edinburgh]] before returning to Ireland and earning a BA (and Gold Medal) in mathematics at [[Trinity College Dublin]] (TCD) in 1838.<ref name=dolmetsch>[https://ift.tt/2TAifNE An Introduction to the Blood Family] dolmetsch online</ref><ref name=foley>Foley, Tadhg [https://ift.tt/2AbFdS3 From Queen's College to National University: Essays on the Academic History of QCG/UCG/NUI, Galway] Four Courts Press (2000), </ref> That degree had been introduced in 1835, and engineering had wasn't introduced at TCD until a few years later.
His career was spent as an engineer, first on railways in the south of Scotland starting in 1840.<ref name=foley/> Later, he was employed by [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] as a [[civil engineer]] during the construction of the [[Great Western Railway]] in England,<ref name=clare/> ending the decade as resident engineer on the Birmingham & Oxford Railway Company.<ref name=foley/>
From 1850 to 1860 he was the professor of [[civil engineering]] at [[Queen's College Galway]], taking over from Thomas Drane, the inaugural professor who had only remained in the job for a few months.<ref name=foley/> There he carried out innovative mathematical analyses of stresses in continuous girders with multiple beams, supported by scale models which confirmed his theories. This work was credited in the design of the [[Boyne Viaduct]] in [[Drogheda]], whose central span alone was 269 feet long, the longest in the world when this railway bridge was completed in 1855<ref name=foley/>
==Personal life==
In 1841 in [[Hobkirk, Scotland]], he married Margaret Stewart (1820–1849), daughter of Robert Stewart of Hawthornside, Roxburgh. They had 4 children, the oldest being [[Sir Bindon Blood]], who had a long and distinguished career in the British Army.<ref name=clare>[https://ift.tt/2TukRMP Biographical Notices of Clare people in various newspapers 1751-1946] Clare County Library</ref> Following Margaret's early death in 1849, and his return to Ireland and taking up of the Queen's College Galway professorship in 1850, W. Bindon Blood remarried, in 1855, this time in Dublin to Maria Augusta Persse (1830–1860), daughter of Robert Henry Persse and Katharine Isabella Seymour. The couple had 2 children, Maria also dying by age 30.
He was a pioneer in the early days of [[cycling]],<ref name=cycling>[https://ift.tt/2A4PAqM William Bindon Blood: the first Irish cyclist?]</ref> and patented a popular lightweight 'Dublin tricycle' in 1876.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Tuc8KG The History of the Bicycle] [[National Museum of Ireland]]</ref>
W. Bindon Blood was also a landlord and a Justice of the Peace.<ref name=peerage>[https://ift.tt/2AcJ0Po William Bindon Blood] The Peerage by Darryl Lundy, Person Page 28250</ref> He died of acute bronchitis, at Cranagher, in 1894, having survived three assassination attempts a few years earlier.<ref name=cycling/>
==References==
==External links==
[[Category:Irish engineers]]
[[Category:Peerage of Ireland]]
[[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Dublin]]
[[Category:Academics of NUI Galway]]
[[Category:Irish cyclists]]
[[Category:19th-century Irish people]]
[[Category:People from County Clare]]
[[Category:1817 births]]
[[Category:1894 deaths]]
==Education and career==
Bindon Blood went to secondary school in [[Edinburgh]] before returning to Ireland and earning a BA (and Gold Medal) in mathematics at [[Trinity College Dublin]] (TCD) in 1838.<ref name=dolmetsch>[https://ift.tt/2TAifNE An Introduction to the Blood Family] dolmetsch online</ref><ref name=foley>Foley, Tadhg [https://ift.tt/2AbFdS3 From Queen's College to National University: Essays on the Academic History of QCG/UCG/NUI, Galway] Four Courts Press (2000), </ref> That degree had been introduced in 1835, and engineering had wasn't introduced at TCD until a few years later.
His career was spent as an engineer, first on railways in the south of Scotland starting in 1840.<ref name=foley/> Later, he was employed by [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] as a [[civil engineer]] during the construction of the [[Great Western Railway]] in England,<ref name=clare/> ending the decade as resident engineer on the Birmingham & Oxford Railway Company.<ref name=foley/>
From 1850 to 1860 he was the professor of [[civil engineering]] at [[Queen's College Galway]], taking over from Thomas Drane, the inaugural professor who had only remained in the job for a few months.<ref name=foley/> There he carried out innovative mathematical analyses of stresses in continuous girders with multiple beams, supported by scale models which confirmed his theories. This work was credited in the design of the [[Boyne Viaduct]] in [[Drogheda]], whose central span alone was 269 feet long, the longest in the world when this railway bridge was completed in 1855<ref name=foley/>
==Personal life==
In 1841 in [[Hobkirk, Scotland]], he married Margaret Stewart (1820–1849), daughter of Robert Stewart of Hawthornside, Roxburgh. They had 4 children, the oldest being [[Sir Bindon Blood]], who had a long and distinguished career in the British Army.<ref name=clare>[https://ift.tt/2TukRMP Biographical Notices of Clare people in various newspapers 1751-1946] Clare County Library</ref> Following Margaret's early death in 1849, and his return to Ireland and taking up of the Queen's College Galway professorship in 1850, W. Bindon Blood remarried, in 1855, this time in Dublin to Maria Augusta Persse (1830–1860), daughter of Robert Henry Persse and Katharine Isabella Seymour. The couple had 2 children, Maria also dying by age 30.
He was a pioneer in the early days of [[cycling]],<ref name=cycling>[https://ift.tt/2A4PAqM William Bindon Blood: the first Irish cyclist?]</ref> and patented a popular lightweight 'Dublin tricycle' in 1876.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Tuc8KG The History of the Bicycle] [[National Museum of Ireland]]</ref>
W. Bindon Blood was also a landlord and a Justice of the Peace.<ref name=peerage>[https://ift.tt/2AcJ0Po William Bindon Blood] The Peerage by Darryl Lundy, Person Page 28250</ref> He died of acute bronchitis, at Cranagher, in 1894, having survived three assassination attempts a few years earlier.<ref name=cycling/>
==References==
==External links==
[[Category:Irish engineers]]
[[Category:Peerage of Ireland]]
[[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Dublin]]
[[Category:Academics of NUI Galway]]
[[Category:Irish cyclists]]
[[Category:19th-century Irish people]]
[[Category:People from County Clare]]
[[Category:1817 births]]
[[Category:1894 deaths]]
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