Hubert Shirley-Smith

{{Short description|British civil engineer (1901–1981)}}

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|name = Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith

|nationality = British

|birth_date = 13 October 1901

|birth_place = London, UK

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1981|02|10|1901|10|13}}

|death_place = London, UK

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|discipline = Civil

|institutions = Institution of Civil Engineers (president),
Imperial College, London (Fellow)

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|significant_projects =Howrah Bridge, Forth Road Bridge

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Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith, CBE, BSc, MICE (13 October 1901 – 10 February 1981) was a British civil engineer.[http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/sh.htm Entry in New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors]

Shirley-Smith helped to design the Howrah Bridge in Calcutta for the Indian Public Works Department in 1943.{{cite book

| last = Banister

| first = Fletcher

| author-link = Banister Fletcher |author2=Dan Cruickshank |author2-link=Dan Cruickshank |author3=Andrew Saint

| title = Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture

| publisher = Architectural Press

| year = 1996

| pages = 1625

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Gt1jTpXAThwC

| isbn = 0-7506-2267-9}} He also served in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid, volunteer Territorial Army unit which provides engineering expertise to the British Army and was gazetted as a major of that corps on 6 October 1953{{London Gazette|issue=40002|page=5837|supp=y|date=30 October 1953}} In 1962 he worked as site agent for the ADC bridge company during construction of the Forth Road Bridge.[https://www.rcahms.gov.uk/pls/portal/newcanmore.newcandig_p_coll_details?p_arcnumlink=957648 RCAHMS archive]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1967 to November 1968, during the 150th anniversary of that institution, and was made a Fellow of Imperial College, London in 1966{{cite book

| last = Watson

| first = Garth

| title = The Civils

| publisher = Thomas Telford

| year = 1988

| pages = 254

| isbn = 0-7277-0392-7}}[http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/college/aboutimperial/imperial_people/fellows Imperial College list of fellows] Shirley-Smith was a consulting engineer and worked for W.V. Zinn & Associates of London from 1969 to 1978.[http://www.britannica.com/oscar/author?id=2711 Encyclopædia Britannica author entry] During 1968 Shirley-Smith was president of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering and helped to arrange the first joint-conferences of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers.{{rp|240}}

Shirley-Smith was honoured with an appointment as a Knight Bachelor on 1 January 1969 in the Queen's New Year Honours, being knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 7 March 1969.{{London Gazette|issue=44740|page=2|supp=y|date=1 January 1969}}{{London Gazette|issue=44804|page=2538|date=7 March 1969}} He was appointed a first class engineer member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers in 1969.{{cite book

| last = Watson

| first = Garth

| title = The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers

| publisher = Thomas Telford Ltd

| year = 1989

| pages = 140

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ybXHDw8u_VcC

| isbn = 0-7277-1526-7}} Shirley-Smith was also an author and wrote The World's Great Bridges and the Encyclopædia Britannica article on bridges. In 1971 he lived in Orpington in Kent. Shirley-Smith died on 10 February 1981.