Angus Fulton

{{About| the engineer (born 1900)|his father and Principal of University College, Dundee (born 1871)|Angus Robertson Fulton}}

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|nationality = British

|birth_date = 10 January 1900

|birth_place = Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland

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|death_place = Inveresk, Mid-Lothian, Scotland

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|discipline = Civil,

|institutions = Institution of Civil Engineers (president), Institution of Mechanical Engineers (fellow), Institution of Electrical Engineers (fellow), Royal Society of Edinburgh (fellow), Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers (member)

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Angus Anderson Fulton (10 January 1900 – 21 June 1983) was a British civil engineer.{{cite book | last = Watson | first = Garth | title = The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers | publisher = Thomas Telford Ltd | year = 1989 | pages = 174 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ybXHDw8u_VcC | isbn = 0-7277-1526-7}}[http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/calendar/senate/honorary.htm University of Dundee honorary graduates] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911095212/http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/calendar/senate/honorary.htm |date=11 September 2009 }}

Life

Fulton was born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 10 January 1900.{{Citation|last=Masterton |first=Gordon |title=ICE Presidential Address |year=2005 |url=http://www.ice.org.uk/downloads//presidents_address_2005(1).pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224220450/http://www.ice.org.uk/downloads//presidents_address_2005%281%29.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 February 2009 |access-date=21 October 2009 }} His father was an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for more than 50 years and Angus followed in his footsteps to become a civil engineer.[https://archive.today/20070527114852/http://www.iricen.gov.in/modules.php?name=Journals-all&file=viewtopic&journal_name_id=87&journal_id=4018426&topic_id=3906433 Fulton's presidential address] Fulton was educated at the High School of Dundee, and University College, Dundee, part of the University of St Andrews where he was a cadet in the senior division of the Officer Training Corps.{{London Gazette|issue=32625|page=1793|supp=y|date=28 February 1922}} Following his graduation in 1922 with a Bachelor of Science degree he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the 51st (Highland) Division engineers section of the Territorial Army Royal Engineers.{{cite news|title=New Post for Dundee Water Engineer|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pTxAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YlkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4801,6272250&dq=angus+fulton+dundee&hl=en|access-date=11 March 2016|newspaper=The Herald|location=Glasgow|date=29 December 1943}}

In 1953 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Robert McAdam, Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross, James Cameron Smail, David Kerr Duff and James Reed.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=17 June 2016|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Fulton was elected president of the ICE for the November 1969 to November 1970 session.{{cite book

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| isbn = 0-7277-0392-7}} He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Dundee on 6 July 1970. Fulton was involved with many institutions and was elected a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In addition he was also elected a member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers in 1972. Fulton was appointed as Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He died at Inveresk, Mid-Lothian, Scotland on 21 June 1983.