Facts: - known for: railway , author surveying , water & sewage engineering , legislation - fields: surveyor , civil engineer - death date: 19 november 1893 - birth date: 26 november 1814 - name: john bailey denton - nationality: british - death place: stevenage , hertfordshire - birth place: london Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john bailey denton .
john bailey denton -lrb- 1814 -- 1893 -rrb- m. inst .c.e. ; f.g.s. , was a british surveyor and civil engineer .