Alexander Robert Horne
Prof Alexander Robert Horne FRSE OBE MIME PRSSA (1881–1953) was a Scottish engineer and author.
Life
[edit]He was born in Leven, Fife in 1881. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh.
He was apprenticed as an engineer to James Milne & Sons Ltd of Milton House Works in the Canongate[1] in Edinburgh probably around 1896. He then went t the University of London to formally train as an engineer.
In 1910 he obtained a post as Professor of Engineering at Robert Gordons College in Aberdeen, aged only 29. Here he lived at 374 Great Western Road in Aberdeen.[2] In 1920 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, Richard Stanfield, George Adam Smith and John Taylor Ewen.[3]
In 1929 he moved to Heriot Watt University as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and stayed there until retiral in 1945.
He died in Edinburgh on 17 May 1953.
Positions of Note
[edit]- President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts
- President of the Aberdeen Association of Civil Engineers
Publications
[edit]- This Modern World and the Engineer (1934) co-written with Charles Galton Darwin
- The Age of Machinery
- The Story of the Orkney and Zetland Association 1896–1946
Family
[edit]He was married to Nina Helena Horne. They had a son Edward A Horne.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "James Milne and Son". gracesguide.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ Aberdeen Post Office directory 1911–12
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
- ^ "Alexander Robert Horne (deceased) - Genealogy". geni.com. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
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