James Anthony "Tony" Gaffney,

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

, FICE,

FREng Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and Scholarship, fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK a ...

, FCIHT (1928–2016) was a British civil engineer. Scammonden Dam under construction in 1970

Gaffney was born in the

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, South Wales in 1928 and holds

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and DSc degrees.. He was the County Engineer for the

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at the time of the construction of Scammonden Reservoir and M62 in the late 1960s. He was elected president of the

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for the 1978-79 session and elected president of the

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for the 1983-84 session. As part of the 1984 Queen's Birthday Honours Gaffney was, on 16 June, appointed a

Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...

, in the civil division. At one point he was Director of Engineering Services at the

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Metropolitan County Council. He died on 2 March 2016 at the age of 87.

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* 1928 births 2016 deaths Welsh civil engineers Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers Presidents of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers Date of birth missing Welsh people of Irish descent People from Monmouthshire Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering {{civil-engineering-stub