Peter Lecount

Lieutenant Peter Lecount RN FRAS CE (25 May 1794 - 1852) was a naval officer and a civil engineer with a strong interest in railways.

He joined the navy in 1809 and saw active service until going on half-pay in 1827.[1]

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society while a Midshipman. Between 1820-23 he wrote papers and related letters to the Board of Longitude on clocks and chronometers, celestial navigation, particularly using Jupiter's satellites, and a marine chair for observing them.[2]

He was the author of "The History of the Railway connecting London and Birmingham";[3] "A Practical Treatise on Railways, explaining their construction and management", originally published as Railways in the seventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica; "An Examination of Professor Barlow's reports on iron rails, etc." 1836.

References

  1. ↑ O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Wikisource link to Lecount, Peter". Wikisource link to A Naval Biographical Dictionary. John Murray. Wikisource.
  2. ↑ Lecount, Peter. "Papers of the Board of Longitude". Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Lecount, Peter. "The History of the Railway connecting London and Birmingham". Retrieved 23 March 2015.