Dr Brysson Cunningham

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

DSc MICE (1868-1950) was a Scottish civil engineer and author specialising in harbour and dock design and operation. In the early 20th century he was generally viewed as the authority in this field.

Life

Brysson Cunningham was born in December 1868. In 1890 he was appointed as a draughtsman at the Dock Yard,

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. In 1908 he moved to work with the

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. Brysson Cunningham also lectured on Waterways, Harbours and Docks at

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in the early 20th century. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1917, his proposers being

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, Ernest Romney Matthews, Benjamin Hall Blyth, and Sir

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. He died in September 1950.

Publications

*''Mineral Shipments at British Ports'' (1904)Cassiers Magazine: August 1904 no.4, p.347-360 *''First Stage Building Construction'' (1904) *''A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Dock Engineering'' (1904) *''The Dock and Harbour Engineer’s Reference Book'' (1914) *''Port Administration and Operation'' (1925) *''Cargo Handling at Ports'' (1926) *''Port Economics'' (1926) *''Port Studies'' (1928) *''Estuary Channels and Embankments'' (1938)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cunningham, Brysson 1868 births 1950 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh British civil engineers Engineers from Dundee