John Urpeth Rastrick

John Urpeth Rastrick (1780–1856) was a British civil and locomotive engineer who built the Agenoria for the Shutt End Railway and the Stourbridge Lion for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company in 1829, the latter being the first commercial locomotive to operate in North America. He was one of the three judges at the Rainhill Trials of 1829, alongside John Kennedy and Nicholas Wood, that selected Rocket as winner.

Born at Morpeth, Northumberland on 26 January 1780, Rastrick worked under John Hazledine at Bridgnorth, where his father had been a manager. He set up the firm of Foster, Rastrick and Company at Stourbridge with James Foster. As a civil engineer he built sections of the Liverpool & Manchester, the London & Brighton Railway and the Brighton viaduct. He died at Sayes Court, Chertsey on 1 November 1856.