John Blenkinsop

John Blenkinsop
Born1783
Died22 January 1831 (aged 47)
OccupationsEngineer, inventor
RelativesThomas Barnes (cousin)

John Blenkinsop (1783 – 22 January 1831) was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway locomotive.

He was born in Felling, County Durham, the son of a stonemason and was apprenticed to his cousin, Thomas Barnes, a Northumberland coal viewer. From 1808 he became agent to Charles John Brandling, who owned collieries on his Middleton estate near Leeds and whose family came from Felling.

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