| Authorised form of name | Gibb; Sir; Alexander (1872 - 1958); Civil engineer |
| Dates | 1872 - 1958 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Broughty Ferry, Forfarshire, Scotland, Unted Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 12 February 1872 |
| Place of death | His home, The Anchorage, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England, Unted Kingdom |
| Date of death | 21 January 1958 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Hartley Wintney |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
| Research field | Civil engineering |
| Engineering |
| Activity | Education:
High School of Dundee, Scotland; Abbey School, Beckenham; Rugby School, Warwickshire; University College, London
Career:
Articled to John Wolfe-Barry and Henry Marc Brunel; work experience on the Caledonian Railway and the new Barry Dock; resident engineer on the Metropolitan Railway - the Whitechapel and Bow Railway extension; joined his father's company, Easton, Gibb & Son (1901-1916); chief engineer, ports construction, to the British armies in France (1916); civil engineer-in-chief to the Admiralty (1918); director-general of civil engineering in the newly created Ministry of Transport (1919); became a consultant engineer, establishing the firm of Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, at Queen Anne's Lodge, Westminster, which became the largest consulting civil engineering firm in the United Kingdom and was involved in projects all over the world (1921-1945).
Fellow of University College
Honours:
CB 1918; KBE 1918; GBE 1920
Memberships:
MICE; MIMechE; MIChemE |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/05/1936 |
| Age at election | 64 |
| Proposer | Richard Vynne Southwell |
| Frederick George Donnan |
| Ernest Rutherford |
| Robert Robertson |
| Robert Abbott Hadfield |
| Jocelyn Thorpe |
| Eustace H T d'Eyncourt |
| William Ernest Dalby |
| Alexander Russell |
| Relationships | Parents: Alexander Easton Gibb, civil engineer, and Hope Brown Paton.
Grandfaher: John Gibb, founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Spouse: (m. 1900) Norah Isobel (d. 1940), daughter of Fleet Surgeon John Lowry Monteith RN.
Children: Three sons. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 15931
RCN 40538 |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Graces' Guides
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1959 vol 5 pp 75-86, plate, by G P Harrison and A J S Pippard |
| Code | NA724 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1936/05 | Gibb, Sir Alexander: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WS/1206 | Gibb, Sir Alexander | 1946 |
| RR/68/163 | Referee's report by Alexander Gibb, on a paper 'Relaxation methods applied to engineering problems VIIA - Biharmonic analysis as applied to the flexure and extension of flat elastic plates' by L Fox and Richard Vynne Southwell | 9 May 1941 |
| ACS/1/2/2/876 | Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Sir Alexander Gibb | 21 December 1927 |
| ACS/1/2/3/40 | Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, 40 Chester Square, London, S. W. 1., to Sir Alexander Gibb | 12 January 1928 |