Alexander Gibb
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Sir Alexander Gibb GBE CB FRS |
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| Born |
Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland 12 February 1872 |
| Died | 21 January 1958 (aged 85) Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Civil |
| Institutions | |
| Practice name | Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners |
Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb GBE CB FRS FRSE (12 February 1872 – 21 January 1958) was a Scottish civil engineer. After serving as Civil Engineer-in-Chief to the Admiralty and Director-General of Civil Engineering at the Ministry of Transport, he established the engineering consultancy firm Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners.
Gibb was born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, the son of the civil engineer, Alexander Easton Gibb, and his wife, Hope Brown Paton. He was the great-grandson of John Gibb, an early member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was educated at the High School of Dundee, the Abbey School in Beckenham, Rugby School and University College London, although he left the latter after a year to become articled to the prominent civil engineers John Wolfe Barry and Henry Marc Brunel. Having completed his training, he became resident engineer on the Metropolitan District Railway's Whitechapel and Bow Railway extension before joining his father's company, Easton, Gibb & Son, in 1900 who were then building the King Edward VII Bridge at Kew. Contracts at the firm included the construction of the Rosyth naval dockyard and Gibb is credited with accelerating the programme so that it was brought into use during World War I.
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