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Authorised form of nameMoncrieff; Sir; Alexander (1829 - 1906); army officer and engineer
Dates1829 - 1906
NationalityBritish
Place of birth27 George Square, Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of birth17 April 1829
Place of deathBandirran, Perthshire
Date of death03/08/1906
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland
Occupationarmy officer and engineer
Research fieldEngineering
ActivityEducation:
Edinburgh University; Aberdeen University
Career:
Commission in the Forfarshire Artillery (Miltia) (1825); served in the Crimea, at the siege of Sebastopol (1855); promoted captain (1857); transferred to the City of Edinburgh artillery (1863); became major (1872); Colonel for the 3rd bridge, Scottish division, Royal Artillery (1878); director of two banks; bought the estate of Bandirran, Perthshire, Scotland.
Honours:
CB 1880; KCB 1890
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/06/1871
Age at election42
ProposerFrederick Marow Eardley-Wilmot
Morgan William Crofton
Thomas Sopwith
Frederick Augustus Abel
Argyll [George Douglas Campbell]
John Fox Burgoyne
Andrew Scott Waugh
John Henry Lefroy
James Joseph Sylvester
William George Armstrong
J F Bateman
RelationshipsParents: Captain Matthew Moncrieff of Culfargie, of the Madras army, and Isabella (d. 1880), daughter of Archibald Campbell.
Spouse: Harriet Mary, daughter of James Rimington Wilson of Broomhead Hall, Yorkshire (20 April 1875).
Children: Five sons and two daughters.
PublishedWorksRCN 55846
OtherInfoInvented the Moncrieff system of raising and lowering guns.
Deisgned a hydro-pneumatic carriage for guns.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA5903
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/3/1067Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Colonel Alexander Moncrieff, Fellow of the Royal Society3 January 1890
EC/1871/08Moncrieff, Sir Alexander: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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