David Anderson (engineer)
{{Short description|Scottish civil engineer and lawyer}}
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|name = Sir David Anderson
|nationality = Scottish
|citizenship = United Kingdom
|birth_date = 1880
|death_date = 1953
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|discipline = Civil,
|institutions = Institution of Civil Engineers (president),
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Sir David Anderson (6 July 1880–27 March 1953){{Cite web|title=Anderson, Sir David, (6 July 1880 – 27 March 1953), Senior Partner in firm of Mott, Hay & Anderson|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-234044|access-date=2021-06-07|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u234044|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}} was a Scottish civil engineer and lawyer.[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp79215 Entry at National Portrait Gallery]
Anderson was born in 1880 at Leven, Fife, Scotland.[http://www.ice.org.uk/downloads/Presidents%20address%20from%20CE%20with%20Appendices(2).pdf Gordon Masterton's presidential address] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923042309/http://www.ice.org.uk/downloads/Presidents%20address%20from%20CE%20with%20Appendices%282%29.pdf |date=23 September 2006 }} In 1921, on his return from Army service, Anderson joined a partnership with fellow engineers Basil Mott and David Hay, forming the company Mott Hay and Anderson.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mottmac.com/aboutmottmac/ourheritage/ |title=Mott MacDonald: Our Heritage |access-date=29 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219095433/http://www.mottmac.com/aboutmottmac/ourheritage/ |archive-date=19 February 2010 |url-status=dead }} Mott, Hay and Anderson traded until 1989, when it merged with Sir M MacDonald & Partners to form Mott MacDonald.
Anderson was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the November 1943 to November 1944 session.{{cite book
| last = Watson
| first = Garth
| title = The Civils
| publisher = Thomas Telford
| year = 1988
| pages = 253
| isbn = 0-7277-0392-7}} He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1951.
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Category:British construction businesspeople
Category:People from Leven, Fife
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Category:Scottish civil engineers
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Category:Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers
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