The Regius Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the

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was founded in 1840 by

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. In 1872 the endowment was increased by the bequest of Isabella Elder in memory of her husband, John Elder. The name of the chair was shortened to Regius Chair of Civil Engineering on the appointment of William Marshall in 1952, but the original name was restored upon the appointment of

René de Borst René de Borst (born February 22, 1958) is a Dutch civil engineer who is known for his work on computational mechanics and fracture mechanics. Since January 2016 he is the Centenary Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Sheffield. ...

in 2012. De Borst left the chair in 2015 towards Sheffield and left it vacated for six years. In 2021, Margaret Lucas became the eleventh incumbent and first female Regius Professor of engineering in Glasgow.

Regius Professors of Civil Engineering and Mechanics

*1840 -

Lewis Gordon Lewis Ricardo Gordon (born May 12, 1962) is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of r ...

*1855 -

William Rankine William John Macquorn Rankine (; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics, particularly ...

*1873 - James Thompson *1889 -

Archibald Barr Archibald Barr LLD, FRS FRSE (18 November 1855, Glenfield House, Paisley, Renfrewshire – 5 August 1931) was a Scottish scientific engineer, inventor and businessman. He was a co-founder of Barr & Stroud, and invented the Barr & Stroud ...

*1913 - John Dewar Cormack *1936 - Gilbert Cook *1952 - William Marshall *1977 - Alexander Coull *1994 - Nenad Bicanic *2012 -

*2021 - Margaret Lucas

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{{University of Glasgow Engineering education in the United Kingdom Professorships at the University of Glasgow Civil Engineering and Mechanics

Regius Professors of Civil Engineering and Mechanics

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