Herbert Haslegrave
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Herbert Leslie Haslegrave (1902–1999) was a British engineering academic who developed Loughborough Technical College into Loughborough University of Technology, and was its first Vice-Chancellor.
Education
Haslegrave was born in Yorkshire in 1902 and went to Wakefield Grammar School.[http://www.lboro.ac.uk/anniversary/pages/history-vicechancellors.html Loughborough University 40th Anniversary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000110/http://www.lboro.ac.uk/anniversary/pages/history-vicechancellors.html |date=4 March 2016 }} History – Vice-Chancellors of the University He continued studying part-time at Bradford Technical College whilst working as an engineering apprentice with the English Electric Company, and gained an external degree of the University of London with first class honours.[http://www.175heroes.org.uk/herbert_haslegrave.html 175 Heroes of Bradford College] Herbert Haslegrave He then obtained a Whitworth Senior Scholarship{{Cite book|title=The Whitworth Register, 2017|publisher=The Whitworth Society|pages=37,201}} which enabled him to go to Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he gained first class honours in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos and several awards.
Career
After a short period in industry he became a college lecturer, joining Wolverhampton & Staffordshire Technical College in 1931, then Bradford Technical College in 1932 and Loughborough College in 1935. He then held a series of posts as principal of colleges, respectively of St Helen's Technical College, Barnsley Technical College and Leicester College of Technology. In 1953 he became Principal of Loughborough College and developed it into a College of Advanced Technology in 1957 and to the UK's first Technical University, Loughborough University of Technology in 1966. He was its first Vice-Chancellor until his retirement in 1966. In 1972, Haslegrave was President of the Whitworth Society. He died in September 1999.
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Further reading
- The Independent 23 October 1999 Obituary: Herbert Haslegrave (D. C. Freshwater)
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Category:British mechanical engineers
Category:Engineering academics
Category:People from the City of Wakefield
Category:Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge