Charles Gordon O'Neill (23 March 1828 – 8 November 1900) was a Scottish-Australasian civil engineer, inventor, parliamentarian and philanthropist, and a co-founder of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia and New Zealand.
[1] He was born in Glasgow, son of John O'Neill, hotel proprietor, and his wife Mary.
Although a full-time official he appears to have had permission to undertake private work for the Roman Catholic community, designing churches and schools.
[1] In January he became 1864 to the Otago provincial government and later district engineer at Clutha,[3] where he laid out the town of Milton.
[4] O'Neill led the St Vincent de Paul Society in the Western Districts of Scotland between 1859 and 1863.