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Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Chilver
Kt. FRS FREng
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage
14 July 1987 – 8 July 2012
Personal details
BornAmos Henry Chilver
(1926-10-30)30 October 1926
Barking, Essex
Died8 July 2012(2012-07-08) (aged 85)
PartyConservative
Spouse
Claudia Grigson
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(m. 1959)​
RelationsChristopher Grigson (brother-in-law)
Wilfrid Grigson (father-in-law)
Children2 daughters, 3 sons
EducationSouthend High School for Boys
Alma materUniversity of Bristol
Occupation
  • Engineer
  • academic
Scientific career
AwardsTelford Medal – Gold
1962
FieldsMechanical Engineering
Institutions
Thesis Thin-Walled Structural Members: a study of the strength of cold-rolled mild-steel sections with particular reference to the effects of local instability  (1950)
Doctoral advisorSir Alfred Pugsley
Doctoral studentsJ. Michael T. Thompson (1962)
Academic offices
Chairman of the Universities Funding Council
In office
1988–1991
Chief ExecutivePeter Swinnerton-Dyer
Vice-chancellor of Cranfield institute of Technology.
In office
1970–1989
Preceded byFirst incumbent
Succeeded byFrank Robinson Hartley
Vice-president of Institution of Civil Engineers
In office
1981–1983

(Amos) Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver Kt. FRS[1] FREng (30 October 1926 – 8 July 2012) was a British engineer and politician.

Early life and career

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Chilver was born in Barking, Essex, to Amos Henry Chilver and his wife Annie E. Mack. After attending Southend High School for Boys, he took up a place at the University of Bristol, where he gained a BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1947.[1][2] He gained a PhD in Civil Engineering in 1951, and a DSc in 1962.[2] From 1952 to 1954, he was a lecturer at the University of Bristol, and between 1958 and 1961 he taught at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[3] Between 1961 and 1969, he was Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering at University College London.[4] Between 1970 and 1989 he was Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University.

In the early 1980s, he was Chairman of the Northern Ireland Higher Education Review Group, which was tasked with producing a report called the Chilver Report on how to unify the Initial teacher education (ITE) used in Northern Ireland.[5] He was the Chairman of the Post Office between 1980 and 1981.[6] In 1983, he succeeded Lord Campbell as Chairman of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC).[7] Between 1992 and 1995 he was Chairman of English China Clays,[8] and on 25 February 1993, he was appointed Chairman of RJB Mining.[9] He has also been a director of ICI.[1][9]

Awards

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He was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1977 and the Royal Society[1] in 1982. In 1978 he was made a Knight Bachelor.[10] He held honorary DScs from the University of Leeds (1982),[11] the University of Bristol (1983),[2] the University of Salford, the University of Strathclyde (1986),[12] the University of Buckingham, the University of Bath (1986) and the University of Technology of Compiègne.

In 1987, he was made a life peer as Baron Chilver, of Cranfield in the County of Bedfordshire,[13] and he was introduced to the House of Lords on 15 July.[14]

Personal life

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In 1959 he married Dr Claudia Grigson, the sister of Christopher Grigson[15] and they had five children: Helen, Sarah, John, Mark and Paul.

Published works

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  • Problems in Engineering Structures with R S Ashby (1958)
  • Strength of Materials with J Case (1959)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Thompson, J. M. T. (2013). "Amos Henry Chilver FREng, Baron Chilver of Cranfield. 30 October 1926 -- 8 July 2012". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 59: 73–91. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2013.0010. S2CID 57916733.
  2. ^ a b c "Bristol University – Alumni and Friends – Faculty of Engineering". University of Bristol. Archived from the original on 26 December 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
  3. ^ "Death of Lord Henry Chilver of Cranfield". Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Michael Thompson: His Seminal Contributions to Nonlinear Dynamics – and Beyond" (PDF). University College London. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
  5. ^ "The Chilver Report: Unity and Diversity". Irish Educational Studies. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
  6. ^ McKeown, Pat (25 July 2012). "Lord Chilver obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  7. ^ Clapson (2004) p.54
  8. ^ "5. Rob Margetts". Times Online. London. 2 November 2004. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
  9. ^ a b "25 Feb 1993 UK: Appointment at RJB Mining". EMAP. 25 February 1993. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
  10. ^ "No. 47601". The London Gazette. 25 July 1978. p. 8920.
  11. ^ "Honorary Graduates 1981 – 1990". University of Leeds. Archived from the original on 30 March 2009. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
  12. ^ "Part1 – 2005" (PDF). University of Strathclyde. 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2005. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
  13. ^ "No. 50999". The London Gazette. 17 July 1987. p. 9151.
  14. ^ "Lord Chilver". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 15 July 1987. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
  15. ^ "Christopher Grigson – Obituaries". The Independent. London. 25 April 2001. Retrieved 4 May 2009.[dead link]

Bibliography

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