The Regius Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the
University of Glasgow
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was founded in 1840 by
Queen Victoria
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In 1872 the endowment was increased by the bequest of Isabella Elder in memory of her husband, John Elder. The name of the chair was shortened to Regius Chair of Civil Engineering on the appointment of William Marshall in 1952, but the original name was restored upon the appointment of
René de Borst in 2012.
Borst left the chair in 2015 towards Sheffield and left it vacated for six years. In 2021,
Margaret Lucas became the eleventh incumbent and first female Regius Professor of engineering in Glasgow.
Regius Professors of Civil Engineering and Mechanics
*1840 - Lewis Gordon
*1855 -
Macquorn Rankine
William John Macquorn Rankine (; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson ( ...
*1873 -
James Thompson
*1889 -
Archibald Barr
Archibald Barr LLD, FRS FRSE (18 November 1855, Glenfield House, Paisley, Renfrewshire – 5 August 1931) was a Scottish scientific engineer, inventor and businessman. He was a co-founder of Barr & Stroud, and invented the Barr & Stroud ...
*1913 - John Dewar Cormack
*1936 - Gilbert Cook
*1952 - William Marshall
*1977 - Alexander Coull
*1994 - Nenad Bicanic
*2012 -
René de Borst
*2021 -
Margaret Lucas
See also
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List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow
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Professor of Civil Engineering (Dublin)
The Professor of Civil Engineering is a professorship at Trinity College Dublin. The chair was founded in 1842, thirty years before the establishment of the college's first degree program in civil engineering. It is one of the oldest chairs in civ ...
References
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Engineering education in the United Kingdom
Professorships at the University of Glasgow
Civil Engineering and Mechanics