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".
Bill Smeaton Bill Smeaton Bill Smeaton is a former Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Niagara Falls, Ontario from 1983 to 1991. First elected to Niagara Falls City Council as an alderman in 1973, he was elected mayor in a 1983 by-election following the resignation of Wayne Thomson, and was subsequently re-elected in the municipal elections of 1985 and 1998. In the 1991 municipal election, Thomson ran for mayor again, while Smeaton ran for a seat on Niagara Regional Council, serving on that body until his retirement from politics in 2010. He was appointed as a citizenship judge in February 2011.