William Weston (engineer)

William Weston (1763 – 29 August 1833) was an English civil engineer who worked in England and the United States.

[1] For a brief period at the end of the 18th century, Weston was the pre-eminent civil engineer in the new US and worked on the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company, the Western and Northern Inland Lock Navigation Companies in New York, the Middlesex canal in Massachusetts, the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Potomac navigation.

William Weston is first noticed with his work on Trent Bridge, Gainsborough, between 1787 and 1791.

In 1792, he sailed from Falmouth to the US to start a five-year engagement as engineer to the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company in Pennsylvania.

He returned to England in 1801, but retained his connection with the US and was a consultant to the Erie Canal Commissioners.