Alexander Cleghorn

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 Edinburgh University and Naval Architecture at Glasgow University.[2]

He then began an apprenticeship with the Govan firm of Robert Napier & 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.[4]

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

References

  1. ↑ http://www.iesis.org/presidents.html
  2. ↑ http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Alexander_Cleghorn
  3. ↑ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf


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