Person    | Male  Born 12/2/1872  Died 21/1/1958

Sir Alexander Gibb

Categories: Engineering

Countries: Scotland

Sir Alexander Gibb

Civil engineer. FRS. Born Scotland into a long line of civil engineers. In London worked on: Metropolitan Railway extension Whitechapel tp Bow and Kew Bridge. Died at his home, The Anchorage, Hartley Wintney.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Alexander Gibb

Commemorated ati

Skempton Building plaques

2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...

Read More

Other Subjects

Brunel's Engine House

Brunel's Engine House

The engine house was designed by Marc Brunel to be part of the infrastructure of his Thames tunnel. It held steam-powered pumps used to extract water from the excavations. Since 1961 the building h...

Building, Engineering

1 memorial
Edward Turner

Edward Turner

Motorcycle designer and manufacturer. Born at 32 Bronti Place, Walworth, Surrey. He became chief designer of the Ariel Cycle Company in 1932, where he designed the four-cylinder Square Four power u...

Person, Engineering

1 memorial
Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice

Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice

Civil engineer. Born at Clogher, near Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. He worked on a wide range of projects around the world including the Forth Bridge, the Aswam Dam and the aborted Chignecto Ship ...

Person, Engineering, Canada, Egypt, Ireland, Scotland

7 memorials
William Cawthorne Unwin

William Cawthorne Unwin

Civil and mechanical engineer.  Born Essex.  1900 he became the first London University professor of engineering. Died unmarried, at his home, 7 Palace Gate Mansions, 29 Palace Gate.

Person, Education, Engineering

2 memorials
Sir Charles Parsons

Sir Charles Parsons

Scientist and engineer. Designed marine turbines. Born 13 Connaught Place, Hyde Park into an aristocratic family. Died on board the liner The Duchess of Richmond, after taking ill in Jamaica.

Person, Engineering, Science

1 memorial

Previously viewed

Sir Alfred Munnings - Glebe Place

Sir Alfred Munnings - Glebe Place

SW3, Glebe Place, 65

A local resident said that this plaque (and the one next door, to William McMillan) is spurious and was erected by developers purely to b...

1 subject commemorated
Sir Arthur Pinero

Sir Arthur Pinero

Born and died in London.

Person, Theatre

1 memorial
Ivor Roberts-Jones
3 memorials
Peczenik

Peczenik

W1, Grosvenor Square, 48

Charles Edmund Peczenik, 1877 - 1967, architect, lived here.

1 subject commemorated