Dorothy Buchanan
Dorothy Buchanan can refer to: *Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan (1899–1985), first woman to join the Institution of Civil Engineers *Dorothy Buchanan (composer) Dorothy Quita Buchanan (born 28 September 1945) is a New Zealand composer and teacher. Life Buchanan was born in Christchurch on 28 September 1945, the second of six daughters in a musical family, and was educated at St Mary's College. She gra ...

Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan
] Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan, married name Fleming (8 October 1899 in Dumfriesshire – 13 June 1985 in Somerset) was a Scottish civil engineer, and the first female member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, successfully passing the institution's admission examination in 1927.Catharine M. C. Haines, ''International women in science: a biographical dictionary to 1950''. Early life and education Buchanan was born at Langholm, the youngest of five children of Reverend James Donaldson Buchanan and Marion Vassie. She was educated at Langholm Academy in Langholm, a town where Thomas Telford had worked as a mason before going on to become an eminent civil engineer; this may have been the inspiration for Buchanan to choose to study for a degree in civil engineering from the University of Edinburgh from 1918. At the University, she studied with Charles Glover Barkla, who had been awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 and her time overlapped with the first woman in Scotland to grad ...
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