Sir David Stirling Anderson (25 September 1895 – 18 January 1981) was a 20th-century Scottish engineer and educationalist.
Life
He was born in
Glasgow on 25 September 1895, the son of Alexander Anderson and his wife, Sarah Stirling.
In the
First World War he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the
Royal Air Force.
He graduated from the
Royal College of Science and Technology (now Strathclyde University) in 1921. From 1924 he was Head of Derby Technical College and in 1930 became Principal of
Birmingham College of Advanced Technology. In 1946 he returned to Glasgow to head his alma mater, the Royal Technical College.
In 1951 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were
James Cameron Smail
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,
Hugh Bryan Nisbet
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,
Maurice Say and
William Marshall Smart
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Life
He was born in Doune in Stirlingshire the son of Peter Fernie Smart and his wife, Isabella Marshall Harrowe ...
. He was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth II in 1957 for services to education.
He died in
Helensburgh on 18 January 1981.
Family
He married twice: firstly in 1932 to Grace Boyd; and following her death in 1974 he married Lorna Ticehurst.
References
1895 births
1981 deaths
Engineers from Glasgow
Alumni of the University of Strathclyde
Scottish civil engineers
Academics of the University of Strathclyde
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Knights Bachelor
Royal Air Force personnel of World War I
Royal Air Force officers
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