| 词条 | Hubert Shirley-Smith |
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|image = Shirley-Smith.JPG |image_size = |caption = Hubert Shirley-Smith |name = Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith |nationality = British |birth_date = 13 October 1901 |birth_place = London, UK |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1981|02|10|1901|10|13}} |death_place = London, UK |education = |spouse = |parents = |children = |discipline = Civil |institutions = Institution of Civil Engineers (president), Imperial College, London (Fellow) |practice_name = |significant_projects =Howrah Bridge, Forth Road Bridge |significant_design = |significant_advance = |significant_awards = }}Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith, CBE, BSc, MICE (13 October 1901 – 10 February 1981) was a British civil engineer.[1] Shirley-Smith is perhaps most famous for helping to design the Howrah Bridge in Calcutta for the Indian Public Works Department in 1943.[2] He also served in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid, volunteer Territorial Army unit which provides engineering expertise to the British Army and was gazetted as a Major of that corps on 6 October 1953[3] In 1962 he worked as site agent for the ADC bridge company during construction of the Forth Road Bridge.[4] He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1967 to November 1968, during the 150th anniversary of that institution, and was made a Fellow of Imperial College, London in 1966[5][6] Shirley-Smith was a consulting engineer and worked for W.V. Zinn & Associates of London from 1969 to 1978.[7] During 1968 Shirley-Smith was president of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering and helped to arrange the first joint-conferences of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers.[5]{{rp|240}} Shirley-Smith was honoured with an appointment as a Knight Bachelor on 1 January 1969 in the Queen's New Year Honours, being knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 7 March 1969.[8][9] He was appointed a first class engineer member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers in 1969.[10] Shirley-Smith was also an author and wrote The World's Great Bridges and the Encyclopædia Britannica article on bridges.[7] In 1971 he lived in Orpington in Kent.[10] Shirley-Smith died on 10 February 1981.[1] References1. ^1 Entry in New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors 2. ^{{cite book | last = Banister | first = Fletcher | authorlink = Banister Fletcher |author2=Dan Cruickshank |author3=Andrew Saint | title = Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture | publisher = Architectural Press | year = 1996 | location = | pages = 1625 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Gt1jTpXAThwC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-7506-2267-9}} 3. ^{{London Gazette|issue=40002|page=5837|supp=y|date=30 October 1953}} 4. ^[https://www.rcahms.gov.uk/pls/portal/newcanmore.newcandig_p_coll_details?p_arcnumlink=957648 RCAHMS archive]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 5. ^1 {{cite book | last = Watson | first = Garth | authorlink = | title = The Civils | publisher = Thomas Telford | year = 1988 | location = | pages = 254 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-7277-0392-7}} 6. ^Imperial College list of fellows 7. ^1 Encyclopædia Britannica author entry 8. ^{{London Gazette|issue=44740|page=2|supp=y|date=1 January 1969}} 9. ^{{London Gazette|issue=44804|page=2538|date=7 March 1969}} 10. ^1 {{cite book | last = Watson | first = Garth | authorlink = | title = The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers | publisher = Thomas Telford Ltd | year = 1989 | location = | pages = 140 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ybXHDw8u_VcC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-7277-1526-7}} {{s-start}} {{s-npo|pro}} {{s-bef|before=Ralph Freeman}} {{s-ttl|title=President of the Institution of Civil Engineers|years=November 1967 – November 1968}} {{s-aft|after=John Holmes Jellett}} {{end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Shirley-Smith, Hubert}} 8 : British civil engineers|Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers|1901 births|1981 deaths|Knights Bachelor|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|Engineer and Railway Staff Corps officers|People from Orpington |
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