John Smeaton Leeds Grammar School, which lead singer Ricky Wilson attended) by the indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs, who are natives of Leeds. A Grammar school in Plymouth, called Devonport High School for Boys, named one of their houses after him, because of <nowiki>"Smeaton's Tower"</nowiki> lighthouse in Plymouth. John Smeaton John Smeaton (8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792) was a British civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist. Smeaton was the first self-proclaimed "civil engineer", and is often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".
Mark Smeaton Retha Warnicke, who argued that Smeaton and George Boleyn had been sexually intimate. Smeaton is fleshed out as a character in the novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" by Hilary Mantel, and the TV miniseries adaptation "Wolf Hall", in which he is portrayed by Max Fowler. Told from Cromwell's point of view, the story shows Smeaton intimidated and manipulated into a confession rather than being tortured. He and the other four accused of adultery with Queen Anne are executed as the culmination of a careful vendetta against them by Cromwell, in revenge for their production of a mocking