William Francis (civil engineer)
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Sir William Francis |
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| Born |
Horace William Alexander Francis 31 August 1926 Clydebank, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Gwendoline Maud Dorricott |
| Parent(s) | Horace Fairie Francis & Jane McMinn Murray |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Civil |
| Institutions | Institution of Civil Engineers (president) |
Sir Horace William Alexander Francis CBE FREng (born 31 August 1926) is a British civil engineer.
Francis was born in Clydebank, Scotland on 31 August 1926, son of Horace Fairie Francis and his wife Jane McMinn Murray and studied at Glasgow's Royal Technical College, which is now part of Strathclyde University.
He married in 1949 Gwendoline Maud Dorricott and has two sons and two daughters.
He has worked on many construction projects in the United Kingdom and abroad including manufacturing facilities, bridges, power stations and offshore structures. He spent 25 years working with the engineering contractor Tarmac plc and was the company's chief operating officer and vice-chairman. Francis has also served as executive director of construction for the Trafalgar House conglomerate and as non-executive director of its oil and gas interests. He has worked as a government advisor for approximately 30 years, serving on several advisory boards such as the British Overseas Trade Board and the Export Credit Guarantee Department. Francis has also worked as a director of the British Railways Board between 1994 and 1997 and as chairman of the Black Country Development Corporation.
On 1 November 1982 Francis was appointed major in the British Army's Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an invitation-only, unpaid unit of 60 engineering and logistics professionals that provide advice to the British armed forces on specialist and technical matters. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 8 July 1986 and became to the unit on 17 August 1992.
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