Search Results

Sign in Modify your search

Narrow Your Choices

Collection

Type

Living

Sex

Life event

Date

Occupations

 1-8 of 8 Results  for:

  • Manufacture and trade x
  • Science and technology x
  • Education and scholarship x
Clear all

Article

Archer, Prof. John Stuart, (15 June 1943–9 Dec. 2007), Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Heriot-Watt University, 1997–2006  

Article

Publication History:

Published online:
01 December 2007

CBE 2002; PhD; FREng, FIChemE, FEI; FRSE

Born 15 June 1943; s of Stuart Leonard Archer and Joan (née Watkinson); m 1967, Lesley Oaksford; one s one d; died...

Article

Bourns, Prof. Arthur Newcombe, (8 Dec. 1919–29 May 2015), President and Vice-Chancellor, 1972–80, Professor of Chemistry 1953–81, then Emeritus, McMaster University  

Article

Publication History:

Published online:
01 December 2007

OC 1982; FRSC 1964; FCIC

Born 8 Dec. 1919; s of Evans Clement Bourns and Kathleen Jones; m 1943, Marion Harriet Blakney; two s two d; died 29 May 2015...

Article

Hankins, Prof. Harold Charles Arthur, (18 Oct. 1930–2 May 2009), Principal, 1984–95, Vice-Chancellor, 1994–95, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology  

Article

Publication History:

Published online:
01 December 2007

CBE 1996; PhD; FREng, FIET

Born 18 Oct. 1930; s of Harold Arthur Hankins and Hilda Hankins; m 1955, Kathleen Higginbottom; three s one d; died 2 May 2009

Principal, ...

Article

Holliday, Sir Frederick (George Thomas), (22 Sept. 1935–5 Sept. 2016), Chairman, Northumbrian Water Group, 1993–2006 (Director, 1991); Vice-Chancellor and Warden, University of Durham, 1980–90  

Article

Publication History:

Published online:
01 December 2007

Kt 1990; CBE 1975; FRSE

Born 22 Sept. 1935; s of late Alfred C. and Margaret Holliday; m 1957, Philippa Mary Davidson; one s one d; died 5 Sept. 2016...

Article

Holmes, Prof. William, (16 Aug. 1922–28 Jan. 2006), Professor of Agriculture, Wye College, University of London, 1955–87, Professor Emeritus, since 1985, Fellow, 1993  

Article

Publication History:

Published online:
01 December 2007

Born Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, 16 Aug. 1922; s of William John Holmes, Bank Manager; m 1949, Jean Ishbel Campbell, BSc (d 2002); two d; died 28 Jan. 2006

Professor of Agriculture, Wye College, University of London, ...

Article

O’Grady, Prof. Francis William, (7 Nov. 1925–20 May 2015), Foundation Professor of Microbiology, University of Nottingham, 1974–88, then Emeritus  

Article

Publication History:

Published online:
01 December 2007

CBE 1984; TD 1970; MD, MSc; FRCP, FRCPath, FFPM

Born 7 Nov. 1925; s of Francis Joseph O’Grady and Lilian Maud Hitchcock; m 1951, Madeleine Marie-Thérèse Becquart; three d; died...

Article

Roberts, Prof. Geoffrey Frank Ingleson, (9 May 1926–24 March 2013), Chairman, British Pipe Coaters Ltd, 1978–88; Professor of Gas Engineering, University of Salford, 1983–89, Professorial Fellow, 1989–91  

Article

Publication History:

Published online:
01 December 2007

CBE 1978; FREng

Born 9 May 1926; s of late Arthur and Laura Roberts; m 1st, 1949, Veronica (d 1993), d of late Captain J. Busby, Hartlepool; two ...

Article

Rooke, Sir Denis (Eric), (2 April 1924–2 Sept. 2008), Chairman, British Gas plc (formerly The Gas Council, then British Gas Corporation), 1976–89 (Deputy Chairman, 1972–76); Chancellor, Loughborough University (formerly Loughborough University of Technology), 1989–2003  

Article

Publication History:

Published online:
01 December 2007

OM 1997; Kt 1977; CBE 1970; BSc (Eng.); FRS 1978; FREng

Born 2 April 1924; yr s of F. G. Rooke; m 1949, Elizabeth Brenda, d of D. D. Evans, Ystradgynlais, Brecon; one ...