Authorised form of name | Cook; Stanley Smith (1875 - 1952); engineer |
Dates | 1875 - 1952 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom |
Date of birth | 25 January 1875 |
Place of death | Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom |
Date of death | 21 May 1952 |
Occupation | Engineer |
Research field | Engineering |
Activity | Education: The King's School, Canterbury (1889-1893); Cambridge University. (1896, 7th Wrangler, Mathematical Tripos), (1897, First Class, Engineering Tripos) Career: Gained practical training with C. A. Parsons and Company (1898-1900); joined the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company as assistant designer (1903-1948), subsequently appointed technical manager of the firm in 1910 and a director in 1930; retired yet continued to sit on the firm's board (1948-1952). |
Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 10/05/1928 |
Age at election | 53 |
Proposer | Richard Threlfall |
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton |
Henry Cort Harold Carpenter |
William Ernest Dalby |
James Alfred Ewing |
Dugald Clerk |
Charles Algernon Parsons |
Relationships | Parents: William Henry Cook and Martha Marsh Smith, of Canterbury. Siblings: William Arthur Smith. Spouse: (m. 1903) Emilie Clara. Children: Rosina Dorothy and Reginald Robert Stanley. |
Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
Sources | Sources: Bulloch's Roll Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 119-127, plate, by Claude Gibb |
Royal Society code | NA5577 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference number | Title | Date |
EC/1928/04 | Cook, Stanley Smith: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
RR/37/48 | Referee's report by William Ernest Dalby, on a paper 'Erosion by water-hammer' by Stanley Smith Cook | January 1928 |
RR/54/137 | Referee's report by Stanley Smith Cook, on a paper 'The formation of emulsions in definable fields of flow' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | May 1934 |
NLB/71/465 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Stanley Smith] Cook, Esq., FRS | 1 June 1928 |
ACS/1/2/3/423 | Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Stanley [Smith] Cook [Esquire], F. R. S. | 16 June 1928 |