Sir David Anderson (6 July 1880–27 March 1953)
was a
Scottish civil engineer
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and
lawyer
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.
Anderson was born in 1880 at
Leven Leven may refer to:
People
* Leven (name), list of people with the name
Nobility
* Earl of Leven a title in the Peerage of Scotland
Placenames
* Leven, Fife
Leven ( gd, Inbhir Lìobhann) is a seaside town in Fife, set in the east Central ...
,
Fife
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,
Scotland
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. In 1921, on his return from Army service, Anderson joined a partnership with fellow engineers
Basil Mott and
David Hay
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, forming the company
Mott Hay and Anderson.
Mott, Hay and Anderson traded until 1989, when it merged with
Sir M MacDonald & Partners to form
Mott MacDonald
The Mott MacDonald Group is a consultancy headquartered in the United Kingdom. It employs 16,000 staff in 150 countries. Mott MacDonald is one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world.
It was established in 1989 by the merger of M ...
.
Anderson was elected president of the
Institution of Civil Engineers
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters are located in the UK, whi ...
for the November 1943 to November 1944 session.
He was created a
Knight Bachelor
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in 1951.
References
Scottish civil engineers
Scottish lawyers
People educated at the High School of Dundee
Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Presidents of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers
1880 births
1953 deaths
People from Leven, Fife
20th-century Scottish businesspeople
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