Hamilton Owen Rendel [SEP] date of death
Hamilton Owen Rendel
Hamilton Owen Rendel (1843–17 September 1902) designed and installed the original raising mechanism of the Tower Bridge while working for Sir W. G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Family.
Rendel was a member of a notable family of engineers. His father, James Meadows Rendel, was a civil engineer who married his mother, Catherine Jane Harris. His siblings were:
- Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel (1829–1918) – civil engineer
- George Wightwick Rendel (1833–1902) – naval architect
Hamilton Owen Rendel and the Liberal MP Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel.
George Rendel married firstly on 13 December 1860 Harriet Simpson, daughter of Joseph Simpson, the British vice-consul at Kronstadt. They had five sons before her death in 1878. He met his second wife, Lucinia Pinelli, in Rome, while serving on a design committee of the Italian Ministry of Marine. They married in 1880 and had three sons (Silvio Rendel, Florian Rendel and George Rendel) and a daughter. His youngest son went