John Elder Professor of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Glasgow

John Elder Professor of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Glasgow

The John Elder Professor of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at Glasgow University, was founded in 1883 and endowed by Isabella Elder (1828-1905) in memory of her husband, John Elder, marine engineer, (1824-1869).

John Elder Professors of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering

* Francic Elgar LLD (1883)
* Philip Jenkins (1886)
* Sir John Harvard Biles DSc LLD (1891)
* Percy Archibald Hillhouse DSc (1921-1942)
* Andrew McCance Robb DSc LLD (1944)
* John Farquhar Christie Conn DSc (1957)
* Douglas Faulkner BSc PhD RCNC FEng (1973)
* Nigel D P Barltrop BSc CEng SICE MRINA

ee also

*List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow

References

*"Who, What and Where: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow" compiled by Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond


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