Alexander Meadows Rendel

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Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel (3 April 1828-23 January 1918) was a British civil engineer.

Rendel was born in Plymouth. He was the eldest son of the engineer James Meadows Rendel and his wife Catherine Harris. His brothers were the civil engineer George Wightwick Rendel and the Liberal MP Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel. He was educated at The King's School Canterbury and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Rendel was the engineer of the London Dock Company in 1856, and was responsible for the Shadwell Basin and the Royal Albert Dock in London, the Albert and Edinburgh Docks in Leith, Workington Dock and Harbour. In 1857-1858 he visited India, and was consulting engineer to the India Office, the East India Railway and other Indian railways, and was a member of the Commission to determine narrow gauge for Indian Railways, in 1870. He was responsible for building the Sukkur barrage over the Indus River.

He married Eliza Hobson, daughter of the Captain William Hobson RN, the late first Governor of New Zealand. The ceremony was held on 27 January 1853 at the Parish Church of Stoke Damerel, Devonport by the Rev James Elliot, uncle of the bride. They had five sons and three daughters.

Rendel died at 51 Gordon Square, London on 23 January 1918.