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Alexander Cleghorn

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{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}{{Use British English|date=March 2018}}Alexander Cleghorn FRSE MICE IESS (1859–1922) was a Scottish engineer and shipbuilder. He served as President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1919–1921.^[1]

Life

He was born in Fife in 1859 and educated in St Andrews. He then studied both engineering at the University of Edinburgh and naval architecture at University of Glasgow.^[2]

He then began an apprenticeship with the Govan firm of Robert Napier and Sons. In 1897 he moved to Barclay Curle & Co as their engineering manager. He then entered the prestigious Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in 1905 as Engineering Director.^[3]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1913. His proposers were Sir Archibald Denny, George Alexander Gibson, James Geikie and Cargill Gilston Knott.^[3]

He retired in 1920, and died in Glasgow on 4 May 1922.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.iesis.org/presidents.html|author=themastertons@btinternet.com|website=iesis.org|title=IESIS Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland|accessdate=2018-02-10}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Alexander_Cleghorn|website=gracesguide.co.uk|title=Alexander Cleghorn|accessdate=2018-02-10}}
3. ^¹https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf

3 : 1859 births|1922 deaths|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

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