Hubert Shirley-Smith

Infobox Engineer


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name = Hubert Shirley-Smith
nationality = British
birth_date = October 13 1901
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discipline = Civil
institutions = Institution of Civil Engineers (president),
Imperial College, London (Fellow)
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significant_projects =Howrah Bridge, Forth Road Bridge
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Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith, OBE, BSc, MICE (October 13 1901 – February 10 1981) was a British civil engineer. [http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/sh.htm Entry in New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors] ]

Shirley-Smith is perhaps most famous for helping to design the Howrah Bridge in Calcutta for the Indian Public Works Department in 1943. [cite book
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coauthors = Dan Cruickshank, Andrew Saint
title = Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture
publisher = Architectural Press
date = 1996
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isbn = 0750622679] He also served in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid, volunteer Territorial Army unit which provides engineering expertise to the British Army and was promoted to Major of that corps on 6 October 1953 [LondonGazette|issue=40002|startpage=5837|supp=yes|date=30 October 1953|accessdate=2008-08-19] In 1962 he worked as site agent for the ADC bridge company during construction of the Forth Road Bridge. [ [http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:da9PhSVhEbEJ:www.rcahms.gov.uk/pls/portal/newcanmore.newcandig_p_coll_details%3Fp_arcnumlink%3D957648+site:www.rcahms.gov.uk+%22Hubert+Shirley-Smith%22+-wikipedia&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk RCAHMS archive] ]

He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1967 to November 1968, during the 150th anniversary of that institution, and was made a Fellow of Imperial College, London in 1966cite book
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title = The Civils
publisher = Thomas Telford
date = 1988
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isbn = 0-727-70392-7] [ [http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/college/aboutimperial/imperial_people/fellows Imperial College list of fellows] ] Shirley-Smith was a consulting engineer and worked for W.V. Zinn & Associates of London from 1969 to 1978. [http://www.britannica.com/oscar/author?id=2711 Encyclopaedia Britannica author entry] ] During 1968 Shirley-Smith was president of the International Association for Bridges and Structural Engineering and helped to arrange the first joint-conferences of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers.cite book
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title = The Civils
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Shirley-Smith was honoured with an appointment as a Knight Bachelor on 1 January 1969 in the Queen's New Year Honours, being knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 7 March 1969. [LondonGazette|issue=44740|startpage=2|supp=yes|date=1 January 1969|accessdate=2008-08-21] [LondonGazette|issue=44804|startpage=2538|date=7 March 1969|accessdate=2008-08-19] He was appointed a first class engineer member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers in 1969.cite book
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first = Garth
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title = The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers
publisher = Thomas Telford Ltd
date = 1989
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pages = p140
url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ybXHDw8u_VcC
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isbn = 0727715267] Shirley-Smith was also an author and wrote "The World's Great Bridges" and the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" article on bridges. In 1971 he lived in Orpington in Kent. Shirley-Smith died on February 10 1981.

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