David Stirling Anderson
{{other people|David Anderson}}
{{short description|Scottish engineer and educationalist}}
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| name = David Stirling Anderson
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSE}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1895|9|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|1|18|1895|9|25|df=y}}
| death_place = Helensburgh, Scotland
| spouse = {{Marriage|Grace Boyd|1932|1974|end=died}}
{{Marriage|Lorna Ticehurst|1974}}
}}
David Stirling Anderson (25 September 1895 – 18 January 1981) was a 20th-century Scottish engineer and educationalist.
Life
He was born in Glasgow on 25 September 1895, the son of Alexander Anderson and his wife, Sarah Stirling.
In the First World War he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force.{{Cite web|title=Letter from David Stirling Anderson to Miss Alice Thom|url=https://strathclyde.ica-atom.org/letter-from-d-s-anderson-to-miss-alice-thom|website=University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections}}
He graduated from the Royal College of Science and Technology (now Strathclyde University) in 1921.{{Cite web|title=Anderson, Sir David Stirling, 1895-1981, engineer and educationist|url=https://strathclyde.ica-atom.org/anderson-sir-david-stirling-1895-1981-engineer-and-educationist|website=University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections}} From 1924 he was Head of Derby Technical College and in 1930 became Principal of Birmingham College of Advanced Technology. In 1946 he returned to Glasgow to head his alma mater, the Royal Technical College.
In 1951 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Cameron Smail, Hugh Bryan Nisbet, Maurice Say and William Marshall Smart. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 for services to education.{{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=15 July 2017|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}}
He died in Helensburgh on 18 January 1981.
Family
He married twice: firstly in 1932 to Grace Boyd, and following her death in 1974 he married Lorna Ticehurst.{{fact|date=June 2024}}
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Category:Engineers from Glasgow
Category:Alumni of the University of Strathclyde
Category:Scottish civil engineers
Category:Academics of the University of Strathclyde
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:Royal Air Force personnel of World War I
Category:Royal Air Force officers
Category:20th-century Scottish engineers
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