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Authorised form of nameClerk; Sir; Dugald (1854 - 1932); mechanical engineer
Dates1854 - 1932
NationalityBritish
Place of birthGlasgow, Scotland
Date of birth31 March 1854
Place of deathLukyns, Ewhurst, Surrey, England
Date of death12/11/1932
OccupationMechanical engineer
Research fieldEngineering
ActivityEducation:
Privately tutored; Anderson's University, Glasgow; Anderson's University; Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds
Career:
Apprenticed to H. O. Robinson & Co., of Glasgow and in his father’s works (1869); studied engineering at Anderson College, Glasgow, followed by the Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds (1871-1876); pursued research on the theory and design of the gas engine, initially with the Glasgow firm of Thomson, Terne & Co., (1877-1885), later with Messrs Tangyes, Birmingham; joined Marks and Clerk consulting engineers and patents agents (1888-1932); engineering director of Messrs Kynoch, of Birmingham (1892-1899); Director and chairman of the National Gas Engine Company, of Ashton under Lyme (1902-1932); Director of Engineering Research for the Admiralty (1914-1918); chairman of the water power resources committee of the conjoint board of scientific societies (1917); member of the water power resources committee appointed by the Board of Trade (1918); chairman of delegacy of the City and Guilds College, South Kensington, London (1918–19).
Awards/Medals:
Albert Medal 1922
Watt medal 1882
Telford prize 1882 and 1886
Telford gold medal 1907
Honours:
KBE 1917
Memberships:
MICE
MIMechE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/05/1908
Age at election54
ProposerJames Johnston Dobbie; John Perry; Charles Vernon Boys; William Cawthorne Unwin; Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Frederick John Jervis-Smith; Henry Selby Hele-Shaw
Thomas Edward Thorpe; Alexander Blackie William Kennedy; James Swinburne; Charles Algernon Parsons; William Henry White; Arthur Smithells; Arthur William Rucker; Edmund James Mills
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1924
RelationshipsParents: Donald Clerk, machinist, of Glasgow, and Martha Symington, second daughter of John Brown, of Glasgow.
Spouse: Margaret (d. 1930), elder daughter of Alexander Hanney, of Helensburgh (1883).
PublishedWorksRCN 33546
RCN 38584
OtherInfoDesigner of the world's first successful two-stroke engine.
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SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 101-102, plate, signed by H R R
CodeNA7825
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MS/525/5/3/17Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road16 June 1916
MS/525/5/2/41Letter from Dugald Clerk to Joseph Ernest Petavel, Engineering Laboratory, The University, Manchester5 July 1915
NLB/56/103Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS21 November 1918
MS/525/6/10/24Letter from Dugald Clerk to William Ernest Dalby, City and Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road 3 April 1916
MS/525/6/2/21'Notes on torpedoes' by Dugald Clerk1914
MS/525/6/1/6Letter from Dugald Clerk to W H Newman, Totteridge, Hertfordshire6 January 1915
MS/525/5/2/59Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor Bertram Hopkinson, The Admiralty, London 5 October 1915
MS/525/5/4/9Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, 37 Madeley Road, Ealing3 July 1917
MS/525/6/4/9Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor Bertram Hopkinson, Engineering Laboratory, Cambridge7 June 1915
MS/525/7/1/18Letter from Dugald Clerk to Robert W Harrison, Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society21 July 1915
MS/525/5/5/2Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road19 January 1918
MS/525/5/1/16Letter from Dugald Clerk to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House24 December 1914
MS/525/5/1/8Letter from Dugald Clerk to Robert W F Harrison, Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House10 December [1914]
MS/525/5/1/4Letter from Dugald Clerk to Vice Admiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, 4 North Street, Westminster1 December [1914]
MS/525/5/1/6Letter from Dugald Clerk to Vice Admiral Sir H Bradwardine Jackson, 4 North Street, Westminster8 December [1914]
MS/525/5/3/13Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor E G Coker, University College, Gower Street12 April 1916
MS/525/5/1/3Letter from Dugald Clerk, Lukyns, Ewhurst, Surrey, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society23 November 1914
MS/525/5/2/5Letter from Dugald Clerk to George Thomas Beilby, 11 University Gardens, Glasgow15 January 1915
MS/525/5/1/9Letter from Dugald Clerk to Arthur Schuster, Honorary Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House10 December [1914]
MS/525/5/2/35Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor Arthur Schuster, Yeldall, Twyford, Herts30 June 1915
MS/525/5/1/15Letter from Dugald Clerk to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House23 December 1914
MS/525/5/1/22Letter from Dugald Clerk to Mervyn O'Gorman, 21 Embankment Gardens, Chelsea 30 December [1914]
MS/525/6/4/4Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor Bertram Hopkinson, 10 Adams Road, Cambridge 30 December [1914]
MS/525/5/2/9Letter from Dugald Clerk to Admiral Sir H E Jackson, The Admiralty, Whitehall23 February 1915
MS/525/5/2/13Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor J E Petavel, Engineering Laboratory, The University, Manchester25 March 1915
MS/525/5/2/8Letter from Dugald Clerk to Colonel Louis C Jackson, War Office, London23 February 1915
MS/525/5/2/43Letter from Dugald Clerk to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House13 July 1915
MS/525/5/2/53Letter from Dugald Clerk to Profesor Arthur Schuster, President, The British Association, The University, Manchester6 September 1915
MS/525/5/2/32Letter from Dugald Clerk to Admiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, The Admiralty, Whitehall11 June 1915
MS/525/6/2/19Torpedo fuel calculations by Dugald Clerk1915
MS/525/5/2/40Letter from Dugald Clerk to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House5 July 1915
MS/525/5/2/55Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Richard Paget, Board of Invention and Research, Victory House, Cockspur Street8 September 1915
MS/525/5/2/56Letter from Dugald Clerk to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House8 September 1915
MS/525/5/2/16Letter from Dugald Clerk to George Thomas Beilby, 11 University Gardens, Glasgow12 April 1915
MS/525/5/3/7Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, 37 Madeley Road, Ealing18 February 1916
MS/525/5/3/4Letter from Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Sectional Committee on Engineering, to Professor Bertram Hopkinson, 10 Adam Road, Cambridge2 February 1916
MS/525/5/3/8Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Imperial College of Science, South Kensington10 March 1916
MS/525/6/6/3/38Letter from Dugald Clerk to the Treasury Solicitor (A), Treasury Chambers, Whitehall20 October 1915
MS/525/5/3/15Letter from Dugald Clerk to the Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House28 April 1916
MS/525/5/3/3Draft letter from the Chairman of the Sectional Committee on Engineering [Dugald Clerk], to Professor [Bertram] Hopkinson31 January 1916
MS/525/5/3/5Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road 2 February 1916
MS/525/5/3/11Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Exhibition Road28 March 1916
MS/525/6/2/17Torpedo fuel calculations by Dugald Clerk1915
MS/525/5/5/10Letter from [Dugald Clerk] to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road, South Kensington18 December 1918
MS/525/5/3/23Letter from Dugald Clerk to William Duddell, 56 Victoria Street, Westminster11 August 1916
MS/525/5/3/19Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road26 July 1916
MS/525/5/5/7Letter from [Dugald Clerk] to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road, South Kensington20 June 1918
MS/525/5/3/25Letter from [Dugald Clerk] to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road 16 August 1916
MS/525/5/3/21Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhbition Road, South Kensington28 July 1916
MS/525/5/5/6Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road, South Kensington11 June 1918
MS/525/7/1/19Letter from Dugald Clerk to H G Bithrie, Engineers Designing and Estimating Company, 86 Great Portland Street, Oxford Street21 July 1915
MS/525/5/3/34Letter from Dugald Clerk to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House24 November 1916
MS/525/5/4/16Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road 12 November 1917
MS/525/5/3/36Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road29 November 1916
MS/525/6/2/20Torpedo fuel calculations by Dugald Clerk1915
MS/525/5/5/12Letter from [Dugald Clerk] to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road31 January 1919
MS/525/6/2/4'Notes on torpedoes' by Dugald Clerk1914
MS/525/5/4/14Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Philip Watts, 11 Windsor Crescent, Newcastle-on-Tyne8 November 1917
MS/525/6/2/23Torpedo fuel calculations by Dugald Clerk1915
MS/525/5/5/19Letter from Dugald Clerk, to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road, South Kensington28 February 1919
MS/525/6/6/3/34Letter from Dugald Clerk to C A Parsons and Company Limited, Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne22 September 1915
MS/525/5/5/23Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, 1 Upper Brook Street10 July 1924
MS/525/7/1/12Letter from Dugald Clerk to F E Brandt, 39a Connaught Street, Hyde Park15 July 1915
MS/525/6/2/15Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Richard Paget, Board of Invention and Research, Victory House, Cockspur Street5 October 1915
MS/525/5/5/21Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir George T Beilby, 11 University Gardens, Glasgow10 July 1924
MS/525/6/2/22Torpedo fuel calculations by Dugald Clerk1915
MS/525/6/2/18Torpedo fuel calculations by Dugald Clerk1915
MS/525/6/2/24Diagram of a torpedo engine fuel system1915
MS/525/6/10/18Letter from Dugald Clerk to Charles Vernon Boys, 66 Victoria Street, Westminster15 July 1915
MS/525/6/3/7Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, The Admiralty, Whitehall30 December [1914]
MS/525/6/6/4/3Notebook 'Question 6 curves of resistance [by Dugald Clerk] 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/21Letter from Dugald Clerk to Admiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, The Admiralty, Whitehall 9 March 1915
MS/525/6/4/10Letter from Dugald Clerk to E Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, The Admiralty7 June 1915
MS/525/6/6/1/5Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, The Admiralty, Whitehall15 December 1914
MS/525/7/1/10Letter from Dugald Clerk to Charles Vernon Boys, 66 Victoria Street18 January 1916
MS/525/6/6/3/27Telegram from Dugald Clerk, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington14 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/1/15Telegram from Dugald Clerk to Vernon OHMS Portsmouth30 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/8Letter from Dugald Clerk to Admiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, The Admiralty, Whitehall18 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/13Letter from Dugald Clerk to Admiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, The Admiralty, Whitehall23 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/14Telegram from Dugald Clerk to Professor [J E ] Petavel, Universtiry, Manchester30 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/3/23Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Thomas Matthews, Trinity House, Tower Hill9 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/12Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Physical Laboratory, The University, Manchester23 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/4/7Notes on technical matters for use with the naval creeping mine [by Dugald Clerk]1915
MS/525/6/7/1Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, The Admiralty, Whitehall15 January 1915
MS/525/6/6/1/20Letter from Dugald Clerk to Admiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, The Admiralty, Whitehall4 January 1915
MS/525/6/8/23Letter from Dugald Clerk to Mervyn O'Gorman, Royal Aircraft Factory, South Farnborough13 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/4Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor Joseph Edward Petavel, Physical Laboratory, Victoria University, Manchester4 February 1915
MS/525/6/8/19Telegram from Dugald Clerk to [Mervyn O'Gorman] Ballooning, South Farnborough10 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/16Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Thomas Matthews, Engineer's Department, Trinity House, Tower Hill 26 February 1915
MS/525/6/8/13Telegram from Dugald Clerk to Sir Philip Watts, 10 Chelsea Embankment 9 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/17Telegram from Dugald Clerk to Sir Charles Parsons, 'Turbo', Newcastle-on-Tyne14 July 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/28Letter from Dugald Clerk to S V Cooke, Gordon Lodge, 97 Lewin Road, Streatham20 April 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/22Letter from Dugald Clerk to Joseph Edward Petavel, Physical Laboratory, The University, Manchester10 March 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/9Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Charles Parsons, Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne16 June 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/14Letter from Dugald Clerk to Joseph Ernest Petavel, Engineering Laboratory, The University, Manchester30 June 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/18Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne 15 July 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/24Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Charles Parsons, Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne9 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/29Copy letter from Dugald Clerk, 57 & 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, to Sir Charles Parsons16 August 1915
MS/525/6/11/4Letter of Dugald Clerk to Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock, 6 Cresswell Gardens, South Kensington11 January 1916
MS/525/6/6/3/35Letter from Dugald Clerk to W H Willett, Secretary, Trinity House, Tower Hill22 September 1915
MS/525/6/6/4/4Sketch of test equipment for a prototype naval mine [by Dugald Clerk]1915
MS/525/6/10/12Letter from Dugald Clerk to Dr P F Mottelay, 262 Kew Road, Kew Gardens4 June 1915
MS/525/6/6/4/1Notes on mine testing [by Dugald Clerk] 1915
MS/525/6/6/4/2Notes on experimental mine apparatus [by Dugald Clerk] 1915
MS/525/6/11/6Letter from Dugald Clerk to Joseph Ernest Petavel, Engineering Laboratory, Victoria University, Manchester21 January 1916
MS/525/6/8/9Letter from Dugald Clerk to Charles Vernon Boys, 66 Victoria Street, Westminster21 May 1915
MS/525/6/10/19Letter from Dugald Clerk to J W Gordon, 11 King's Bench Walk, Temple19 July 1915
MS/525/6/10/31Letter from Dugald Clerk to William Ernest Dalby, City and Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road1 December 1915
MS/525/6/11/15Letter from Dugald Clerk to Sir Richard Paget, Board of Invention and Research, Victory House, Cockspur Street 23 May 1916
MS/525/6/8/20Telegram from Dugald Clerk to Mervyn O'Gorman, Ballooning, South Farnborough10 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/30Telegram from Dugald Clerk, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to Sir Charles Parsons care Turbo, Newcastle-on-Tyne16 August 1915
MS/525/6/8/17Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor Bertram Hopkinson, The Admiralty, Whitehall9 August 1915
MS/525/6/10/21Letter from Dugald Clerk to J W Gordon, 11 King's Bench Walk, Temple21 July 1915
MS/525/6/11/3Letter of Dugald Clerk to Sir Philip Watts, 10 Chelsea Embankment11 January 1916
MS/525/6/8/16Letter from Dugald Clerk to Mervyn O'Gorman, Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough9 August 1915
MS/525/6/10/28Letter from Dugald Clerk to R A Henry, Cator & Golledge, Cheltenham Works, Acre Lane, Brixton25 October 1916
MS/525/7/1/14Letter from Dugald Clerk to F E Brandt, 39 Connaught Street, Hyde Park21 July 1915
MS/525/6/10/14Letter from Dugald Clerk to Charles Vernon Boys, 66 Victoria Street, Westminster9 June 1915
MS/525/6/12/4Letter from Dugald Clerk to Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock, 6 Cresswell Gardens18 January 1916
MS/525/6/11/16Letter from Dugald Clerk to Robert Harrison, The Royal Society, Burlington House23 May 1916
MS/525/7/1/6Letter from Dugald Clerk to Charles Vernon Boys, 66 Victoria Street9 August 1915
MS/525/6/10/16Letter from Dugald Clerk to Dr John Ambrose Fleming, The Pender Electrical Laboratory, University College, Gower Street10 June 1915
MS/525/7/1/22Letter from Dugald Clerk to the Engineering Improvement Company, 4a First Avenue Hotel Buildings, High Holborn 5 August 1915
MS/525/7/2/29Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor John Joly, Somerset House, Temple Road, Dublin 1 March 1915
MS/525/7/2/23Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor John Joly, Somerset House, Temple Road, Dublin23 February 1915
MS/525/7/2/3Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor Ernest Henry Starling, Institute of Physiology, University College, Gower Street 19 May 1915
MS/525/7/2/22Letter from Dugald Clerk to Admiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, The Admiralty, Whitehall 22 February 1915
MS/525/7/2/25Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor John Joly, Somerset House, Temple Road, Dublin26 February 1915
MS/525/7/2/4Letter from Dugald Clerk to Dr de Lange, Jermyn Court Hotel, Jermyn Street21 May 1915
IM/006476Sir James Alfred Ewing, Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and Sir Dugald Clerk 1910
MS/525/7/3/4Letter from Dugald Clerk to R D Oldham, 8 North Street, Horsham, Sussex30 June 1915
IM/Maull/000881Clerk, Sir Dugaldnd
NLB/19/33Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons6 June 1899
RR/17/19Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'On the specific heat of, heat flow from, and other phenomena of, the working fluid in the cylinder of the internal combustion engine' by Dugald Clerk[March 1906]
NLB/37/662Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to C Percy Taylor, Park House, Gravesend, Kent28 April 1908
NLB/37/871Copy Letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] Barlow, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1908
NLB/43/325Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dugald Clerk, Fellow of the Royal Society10 December 1910
NLB/55/444Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Duglad Clerk, K.B.E., FRS09 April 1918
NLB/51/88Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Dr Dugald Clerk8 December 1915
NLB/51/21Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Duagld Clerk, FRS20 November 1914
NLB/54/288Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Messrs Harrison & Sons23 March 1917
NLB/63/20Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS15 June 1922
NLB/52/389Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, FRS26 November 1915
NLB/52/688Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, FRS14 February 1916
RR/22/115Referee's report by Dugald Clerk, on a paper 'The reaction between gas and pole in the electrical ignition of gaseous mixtures' by W M ThorntonJuly 1915
NLB/54/420Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS9 May 1917
NLB/54/438Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS15 May 1917
NLB/54/369Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS25 April 1917
NLB/54/446Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS17 May 1917
NLB/54/402Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS4 May 1917
NLB/54/520Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS 8 June 1917
NLB/54/521Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS 8 June 1917
RR/22/117Referee's report by Dugald Clerk, on a paper 'The ignition of gases by impulsive electrical discharge' by W M Thornton1915
NLB/55/24Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS09 November 1917
NLB/55/13Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS07 November 1917
NLB/54/911Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS2 November 1917
NLB/63/520Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Duglad Clerk, FRS02 November 1922
NLB/64/24Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Engineering Sciences Committee and FRS20 January 1923
NLB/56/439Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS12 February 1919
NLB/56/342Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS17 January 1919
NLB/56/503Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS26 February 1919
NLB/56/519Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS1 March 1919
NLB/55/84Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS28 November 1917
NLB/63/206Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS17 July 1922
NLB/58/324Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS20 April 1920
NLB/58/28Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS3 March 1920
NLB/55/663Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS15 July 1918
NLB/59/880Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS25 November 1920
NLB/60/117Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS10 December 1920
NLB/60/346Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Engineering Sciences Committee and FRS21 January 1921
NLB/60/622Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Engineering Sciences Committee3 March 1921
NLB/57/643Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee3 January [1920]
NLB/62/29Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Engineering Sciences Committee and FRS19 November 1921
NLB/61/598Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Engineering Sciences Committee and FRS16 September 1921
NLB/57/738Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS, KBE, Chairman of the Sectional Committee for Applied Sciences30 January 1920
NLB/61/788Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS26 October 1921
NLB/55/537Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS23 May 1918
NLB/57/831Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS, KBE, Chairman of the Applied Science Committee18 February 1920
NLB/57/818Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk KBE, FRS13 February 1920
NLB/62/272Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Engineering Sciences Committee and FRS16 January 1922
NLB/62/284Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Engineering Sciences Committee and FRS19 January 1922
NLB/63/316Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS18 August 1922
NLB/55/932Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS29 October 1918
NLB/55New Letter Book volume 55, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration5 November 1917-1 November 1918
NLB/64/428Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Engineering Sciences Committee and FRS11 April 1923
NLB/64/352Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS22 March 1923
NLB/57/691Copy letter from John M [Millar] Thomson, Chairman of the Library Committee of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John William] Nicholson, FRS, Chairman of the Sectional Committee of Mathematics16 January 1920
NLB/64/281Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS7 March 1923
NLB/63/587Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS09 November 1922
NLB/64/381Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS23 March 1923
NLB/63/684Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS30 November 1922
NLB/63/647Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS23 November 1922
NLB/65/12Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS12 July 1923
NLB/65/177Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS8 September 1923
NLB/65/498Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS8 November 1923
NLB/67/161Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Deputy Minister of the Mint6 November 1924
NLB/64/626Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk FRS16 May 1923
NLB/64/376Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS23 March 1923
NLB/67/197Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Registrar; the University of Leeds12 November 1924
NLB/67/191Copy letter of a notice sent to 'The Times'; 'The Morning Post'; 'The Daily Telegraph'; 'Nature'; the Press Association10 November 1924
NLB/66/169Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of] the Royal Society; to Professor [William Ernest] Dalby, FRS6 March 1924
NLB/67/323Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, KBE, FRS5 December 1924
NLB/67/123Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, KBE, FRS; also sent to [Sydney] Chapman FRS; [Frederick George] Donnan FRS; [Francis William] Aston FRS; [George Clarke] Simpson FRS; [Henry Hallett] Dale FRS; [James Hartley] Ashworth FRS; [Frederick Frost] Blackman FRS; [John Beresford] Leathes FRS30 October 1924
NLB/67/155Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse6 November 1924
NLB/66/619Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS6 June 1924
NLB/71/22Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, K.B.E., FRS7 December 1927
NLB/72/33Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, KBE, FRS25 January 1929
NLB/72/504Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, KBE, FRS18 November 1929
NLB/72/690Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, KBE, FRS3 March 1930
NLB/72/673Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, KBE, FRS24 February 1930
NLB/72/952Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, KBE, FRS17 July 1930
NLB/63New Letter Book volume 63, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration10 June 1922-19 January 1923
EC/1908/03 Clerk, Sir Dugald: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/525/5/2/23Letter from Dugald Clerk to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secreatry, The Royal Society, Burlington House30 April 1915
MS/525/5/2/24Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor Arthur Schuster, Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, Picadilly 30 April 1915
MS/525/5/3/28Letter from Dugald Clerk to Professor W E Dalby, City & Guilds (Engineering) College, South Kensington 25 September 1916
MS/525/5/4/1Draft letter from Dugald Clerk, 57 & 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to Sir Charles Parsons, 5 Carlos Place, London 12 January 1917
MS/525/6/2/12Letter from Dugald Clerk to Commander Cecil Ryther Acklom, Royal Naval Torpedo Factory, Greenock2 September 1915
MS/525/6/2/6Letter from [Dugald Clerk] to Commander Cecil Ryther Acklom, Superintendent, Royal Naval Torpedo Factory, Greenock5 January 1915
MS/525/6/2/9Letter from Dugald Clerk to Commander Cecil Ryther Acklom, Superintendent, Royal Torpedo Factory, Greenock5 March 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/7Letter from Dugald Clerk, to Captain [Philip] Dumas, Assistant Director of Torpedoes, The Admiralty, Whitehall5 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/26Letter from Dugald Clerk to Joseph Ernest Petavel, Physical Laboratory, Victoria University, Manchester23 March 1915
NLB/52/470Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor Charles Herbert Lees, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee and FRS17 December 1915
NLB/54/149Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS19 February 1917
NLB/54/390Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS30 April 1917
NLB/56New Letter Book volume 56, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration1 November 1918-27 June 1919
NLB/56/368Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS24 January 1919
NLB/58/205Copy letter from [Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Sir Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS25 March 1920
MS/525/6/2/3Letter from [Dugald Clerk] to Commander Cecil Ryther Acklom, Superintendent, Royal Torpedo Factory, Greenock22 December 1914
IM/000882Clerk, Sir Dugald1922
RR/21/25Referee's report by Dugald Clerk, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at high pressures' by William Arthur Bone, Hamilton Davies, H H Gray, Herbert H Henstock and J B Dawson[March 1915]
NLB/54New Letter Book volume 54, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration10 January 1917-2 November 1917
NLB/53/370Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Secretary, Reconstruction Committee, 6a Dean's Yard, S.W. 24 July 1916
NLB/64New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration19 January 1923-11 July 1923
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
MC/23/102Letter from Dugald Clerk, 37 Parkside, Albert Gate, London, to the Secretary of The Royal Society13 May 1908
MC/21/116Letter from Dugald Clerk, Consulting Engineer, 18 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, to Robert [William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House23 March 1906
MC/39Volume 39 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1925
MC/32/52Letter from Dugald Clerk, 57 & 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W8 November 1917
MC/34/34Letter from Dugald Clerk, 57 & 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.2, to [Robert] Harrison, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W28 January 1919
MC/34/35Letter from Dugald Clerk, 57 & 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.2, to Robert Harrison, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W4 March 1919
MC/22/478Letter from William Cawthorne Unwin, Palace Gate Mansions, 29 Palace Gate, Kensington, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison31 December 1906
MC/39/23Letter from Dugald Clerk, Consulting Engineer, 57 & 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House23 July 1925
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
ACS/1/1/77Letter from Dugald Clerk, The Admiralty Engineering Laboratory, City and Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road, London, S.W., to [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton 21 February 1917
ACS/1/1/74Letter from Dugald Clerk, Engineering Laboratory, 6 Featherstone Buildings, High Holborn, London, W.C., to [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton16 March 1908
ACS/1/1/75Letter from Dugald Clerk, Grosvenor Hotel, London, S.W., to [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton25 July 1912
ACS/1/1/76Letter from Dugald Clerk, Lukyns, Ewhurst, Surrey, to [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton16 March 1913
ACS/1/1/79Letter from Dugald Clerk, 57 & 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W. C., to [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, London17 July 1917
ACS/1/1/80Letter from Dugald Clerk, Lukyns, Ewhurst, Surrey, to [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton6 September 1917
MC/23Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1908
ACS/6/5'Photographs taken at 40 Chester Square with ARC Electric Light' by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton1909-1914
ACS/1/2/1/268Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to [George Kenneth] Menzies, [Esquire], M. A., [Secretary, The Royal Society of Arts]30 December 1920
ACS/1/2/1/530Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to [Richard Tetley] Glazebrook11 March 1921
ACS/1/2/1/531Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to [Charles Algernon] Parsons11 March 1921
ACS/1/2/1/548Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Sir Dugald Clerk, F. R. S17 March 1921
ACS/1/1/78Letter from Dugald Clerk, The Admiralty Engineering Laboratory, City and Guilds (Engineering) College, Exhibition Road, London, S.W., to [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton F. R. S., 66 Victoria Street, London, S.W.17 May 1917
ACS/1/2/6/15Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton], 66 Victoria Street, London, S. W., to Kate [Swinton]20 March 1921
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