On leaving school he was sent by his father, at the age of sixteen, to Tweedside to make a survey of a new system of farming which had been adopted by Lord Kames, Hume of Ninewells, and other landed gentry of the district. In 1765 he became superintendent of a brewery which his father had erected. The elder Rennie died in 1766, and, after leasing the business for some years, the son conducted it on a large scale from 1783 to 1797, when he finally relinquished it to a tenant. Rennie then devoted himself to the pursuit of agriculture on the Phantassie farmland and in 1787 he employed Andrew Meikle, the eminent millwright (to whom his brother, John Rennie, the engineer, had been apprenticed) to erect one of his drum thrashing-machines.
Rennie died on 6 October 1828. He was one of the authors of A General View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire.... By Messrs. Rennie, Brown, and Shirreff, London, 1794, written for the Board of Agriculture's General View of Agriculture county surveys.
Son - George Rennie: George Rennie was a Scottish sculptor and politician. He entered politics to support the arts in Britain and helped achieve free access to public art and museums. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich, 1842-1847. That year he was appointed as governor of the Falkland Islands, off the coast of Argentina. George Rennie was born to George Rennie, agriculturist, and his wife in Phantassie, East Lothian, Scotland. He was a nephew of John Rennie, the civil engineer. Interested in art from an early age, Rennie studied sculpture at Rome as a young man. He died in London on 22 March 1860.
Two of his sons were: Richard Rennie, Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan.
William Hepburn Rennie, auditor-general of Hong Kong and Lt Governor of St. Vincent.
On leaving school he was sent by his father, at the age of sixteen, to Tweedside to make a survey of a new system of farming which had been adopted by Lord Kames, Hume of Ninewells, and other landed gentry of the district. In 1765 he became superintendent of a brewery which his father had erected. The elder Rennie died in 1766, and, after leasing the business for some years, the son conducted it on a large scale from 1783 to 1797, when he finally relinquished it to a tenant. Rennie then devoted himself to the pursuit of agriculture on the Phantassie farmland and in 1787 he employed Andrew Meikle, the eminent millwright (to whom his brother, John Rennie, the engineer, had been apprenticed) to erect one of his drum thrashing-machines.
Rennie died on 6 October 1828. He was one of the authors of A General View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire.... By Messrs. Rennie, Brown, and Shirreff, London, 1794, written for the Board of Agriculture's General View of Agriculture county surveys.
Son - George Rennie: George Rennie was a Scottish sculptor and politician. He entered politics to support the arts in Britain and helped achieve free access to public art and museums. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich, 1842-1847. That year he was appointed as governor of the Falkland Islands, off the coast of Argentina. George Rennie was born to George Rennie, agriculturist, and his wife in Phantassie, East Lothian, Scotland. He was a nephew of John Rennie, the civil engineer. Interested in art from an early age, Rennie studied sculpture at Rome as a young man. He died in London on 22 March 1860.
Two of his sons were: Richard Rennie, Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan.
William Hepburn Rennie, auditor-general of Hong Kong and Lt Governor of St. Vincent.
Inscription
GEORGE RENNIE ESQ.
OF PHANTASSIE
DIED ON 10TH OF OCTOBER 1828
AGED 79 YEARS
IN THIS COUNTRY SO CELEBRATED FOR ITS FERTILE
SOIL, AND THE PERFECTION OF ITS CULTIVATION,
MR RENNIE WAS ACKNOWLEDGED BY HIS
CONTEMPORARIES TO BE THE MOST SKILFUL AND
SUCCESSFUL AGRICULTURIST. NOR WAS THE REPUTATION
HE SO JUSTLY MERITED, CONFINED TO HIS NATIVE LAND.
HE CORRESPONDED WITH, AND WAS VISITED NOT ONLY BY
THE LEADING AGRICULTURISTS OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND,
BUT MANY NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN FROM FRANCE,
RUSSIA, GERMANY, POLAND, HUNGARY
AND OTHER EUROPEAN STATES
SEEKING INFORMATION TO IMPROVE THEIR DOMAINS,
WERE HOSPITABLY RECEIVED BY HIM, AND INSTRUCTED IN
HIS THEORIES AND PRACTISE. HE PERFORMED ZEALOUSLY
AND IMPARTIALLY THE DUTIES OF A MAGISTRATE,
AND WAS EVER READY TO ADVISE OR ASSIST THOSE,
WHO SOUGHT RELIEF FROM DIFFICULTIES OR MISFORTUNE.
DEEPLY LAMENTED BY HIS WIFE,
FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND DEPENDENTS,
HIS MEMORY WILL LONG BE CHERISHED AND RESPECTED.
ON THE 13TH OF JANUARY 1853 DIED
MARION; WIFE OF THE ABOVE, AGED 78 YEARS,
CLOSING A LIFE PASSED IN THE FULFILMENT OF EVERY
CONJUGAL AND MATERNAL DUTY HER LOSS IS SINCERELY
REGRETTED BY HER FAMILY, AND BY ATTACHED AND
APPRECIATED FRIENDS, MANY UNOSTENTATIOUS
LIBERALITES AND CHARITIES EXEMPLIFIED THE TRULY
SELF DENYING BENEVOLENCE OF HER DISPOSITION.
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