William Geddes (painter)
William Geddes may refer to: *William George Nicholson Geddes (1913–1993), Scottish civil engineer *William Duguid Geddes (1828–1900), Scottish scholar and educationalist *William Geddes (bishop) William Archibald Geddes was an Anglican priest in the mid 20th century. He was born in the Magdalen Islands on 18 February 1894 and educated at Dalhousie University. He served in the Great War as a gunner in the 8th Canadian Siege Battery. He w ...

William George Nicholson Geddes
William George Nicholson Geddes CBE DSc FRSE FEng (29 July 1913 – 10 November 1993) was a Scottish civil engineer. Life George Geddes was born in Oldhamstocks, East Lothian the son of Ina Nicholson and her husband, William Brydon Geddes. His early education was at Dunbar Grammar School. He studied civil engineering at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a BSc in 1934 and gaining a "blue" in football. He worked for the City Engineer in Edinburgh, then Sir William Arrol & Company, and F.A. Macdonald & Partners under William Fairhurst, before joining Babtie, Shaw and Morton in 1942. He became a partner of the firm in 1950 and senior partner from 1976 to 1978. His specialist experience was structural engineering which led to an interest in hydro-electric projects, dams, shipyards, docks and industrial developments. One of Geddes' most notable projects, under the overall direction of James Arthur Banks and later constructed by the contractor Marples Ridgway, was h ...
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William Duguid Geddes
Sir William Duguid Geddes (21 November 1828''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950''9 February 1900) was a Scottish scholar and educationalist, who promoted the cause of classical Greek at the University of Aberdeen and later became Principal. Geddes's classical translations, grammars and scholarship contributed to publications both written with collaborators and edited in series. One of the outstanding scholars of his generation in Scotland, he was the architect of the fusion of the modern University of Aberdeen and its High Victorian development. Life Geddes was born in Glass, Aberdeenshire, to Jane Mcconnachie and John Geddes. Both his father and grandfather were successful farmers. William's three sisters Jane, Margaret and Charlotte went to live at Dresden, Germany where they became leading feminist academics at the university. One of his brothers was a judge at Bengal, made a lot of money in the United States, and bought a house in central London, where ...
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