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Alexander Cleghorn
Scottish engineer and shipbuilder From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 1917–1919.[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.
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