Benjamin Hall Blyth II (25 May 1849 – 13 May 1917) was a Scottish civil engineer. Blyth, who was born in St Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, East Lothian, was the eldest of the nine children of the railway engineer Benjamin Blyth. He studied at Merchiston Castle School between 1860 and 1864 before studying for a Master of Arts degree from Edinburgh University.

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  • Benjamin Hall Blyth II (25 May 1849 – 13 May 1917) was a Scottish civil engineer. Blyth, who was born in St Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, East Lothian, was the eldest of the nine children of the railway engineer Benjamin Blyth. He studied at Merchiston Castle School between 1860 and 1864 before studying for a Master of Arts degree from Edinburgh University. After the death of both parents - Benjamin Blyth in 1866 and Mary Dudgeon Wright in 1868 - Blyth and his siblings were brought up by their mother's sister, Elizabeth Scotland Wright. Following his father's death Blyth entered the family engineering consultancy and became a partner five years later. Blyth served as a consultant to the North British Railway and the Great North of Scotland Railway and served in an advisory capacity to the British Army with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps. In 1872 he married Millicent Taylor with whom he had a son, Benjamin Edward, who died in infancy, and a daughter, Elsie Winifred. He became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1877, being elected to its council in 1900. He served as vice-president in 1911 and in 1914 became the first practising Scottish engineer to serve as president. On 7 February 1898 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Blyth stood as the Unionist candidate for the East Lothian by-election of 1911. He lost. One of his platforms was opposing the giving of home rule to Ireland. He was widowed on 12 September 1914 and died in North Berwick on 13 May 1917, of "spittielioma of tongue". He was survived by his daughter. His nephew, Benjamin Hall Blyth III - the son of his brother Francis Creswick Blyth - who was taken on by Blyth and Blyth in 1909, continued the consultancy after his death.
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  • Benjamin Edward Blyth, Elsie Winifred Blyth
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  • 25 May 1849
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  • Benjamin Blyth II
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  • Benjamin Hall Blyth I, Mary Dudgeon Wright
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  • Blyth and Blyth
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  • Millicent Taylor
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  • November 1914 – November 1915
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  • Benjamin Hall Blyth II (25 May 1849 – 13 May 1917) was a Scottish civil engineer. Blyth, who was born in St Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, East Lothian, was the eldest of the nine children of the railway engineer Benjamin Blyth. He studied at Merchiston Castle School between 1860 and 1864 before studying for a Master of Arts degree from Edinburgh University.
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  • Benjamin Blyth II
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