# Gordon Beveridge

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{{Short description|Scottish chemist}}
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| name          = Gordon Beveridge
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| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1933|11|28|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [St Andrews](/source/St_Andrews), [Fife](/source/Fife), [Scotland](/source/Scotland)
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1999|08|28|1933|11|28|df=y}}
| death_place   = [Belfast](/source/Belfast), [Northern Ireland](/source/Northern_Ireland)
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| education     = [Inverness Royal Academy](/source/Inverness_Royal_Academy),<br/>[University of Glasgow](/source/University_of_Glasgow),<br/>[University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh)
| occupation    = chemist
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| known_for     = founder member of the [Engineering Council](/source/Engineering_Council)
| notable_works = ''Optimization: Theory and Practice'',<br/>''Engineering in the 80s'' exhibition
| father        = Victor Beattie Beveridge
| mother        = Elizabeth (Fairbairn) Grieve
| spouse        = {{Marriage|Geertruida Hillegonda Johanna Bruijn|1963}}
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'''Sir Gordon Smith Grieve Beveridge''' (28 November 1933  – 28 August 1999) was a Scottish [chemical engineer](/source/chemical_engineer). He served as president and vice-chancellor of [Queen's University of Belfast](/source/Queen's_University_Belfast), [Northern Ireland](/source/Northern_Ireland), from 1986 to 1997. He was knighted in 1994 for his services to higher education and died in [Belfast](/source/Belfast).<ref name="obit">{{cite news |last1=Kincade |first1=James |title=Obituary: Sir Gordon Beveridge |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sir-gordon-beveridge-1115892.html |accessdate=27 March 2019 |work=The Independent |date=4 September 1999 |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
Sir Gordon was born in [St Andrews](/source/St_Andrews), Fife and brought up in Inverness. He attended [Inverness Royal Academy](/source/Inverness_Royal_Academy), followed by the [University of Glasgow](/source/University_of_Glasgow), where he studied engineering. He had a distinguished career and completed his PhD at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh). He spent some time at the [University of Minnesota](/source/University_of_Minnesota) as a Harkness Fellow.<ref name=H>{{cite web |url= https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12265033.sir-gordon-beveridge/  |title= Sir Gordon Beveridge  |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 31 August 1999  |website= Herald Scotland  |publisher= |access-date= June 17, 2025 |quote=}}</ref> He was also a visiting professor at the [University of Texas](/source/University_of_Texas). In 1967, he moved to [Heriot-Watt University](/source/Heriot-Watt_University) in Edinburgh, and, from 1971 to 1986, was a professor of chemical engineering and head of the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the [University of Strathclyde](/source/University_of_Strathclyde) in Glasgow.<ref name=ICHEME>{{cite web |url= https://www.icheme.org/about-us/history/presidents/gordon-smith-grieve-beveridge/ |title= Gordon Smith Grieve Beveridge |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= IChemE  |publisher= |access-date= June 17, 2025 |quote=}}</ref>

Among his many posts, he was a Fellow and an Officer of the [Royal Academy of Engineering](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Engineering), a Fellow of the [Royal Society of Edinburgh](/source/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh), a Fellow of the [Royal Society of Arts](/source/Royal_Society_of_Arts), a member of the [Royal Irish Academy](/source/Royal_Irish_Academy) and a Companion of the Institute of Management.<ref name=H />

In 1981, he was a founder member of the [Engineering Council](/source/Engineering_Council).<ref name=ICHEME /> He served 13 years first as chairman of its Standing Committee on Professional Institutions and later as chairman of its standing committee on the Regions and Assembly. He was also a member of the National Economic Development Office (Nedo) Chemicals Economic Development Committee and chairman of its Petrochemical Sector Working Group.

In 1984, he served a term as president of the [Institution of Chemical Engineers](/source/Institution_of_Chemical_Engineers). He was President of QUA in 1989. He was chairman of the Government's Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC) 1995-98, a member of the board of the Northern Ireland Growth Challenge and a director of University Bookshop Ltd, the Northern Quality Centre and the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre. 

He also served as a member of the council of the Open University, as director and chairman of Navan at Armagh Management Ltd, which runs the Navan Fort complex; Textflow Services Ltd, QUBIS Ltd (1991–97) and Lennoxvale Developments Ltd.

He was also a director of [NI Opera](/source/NI_Opera).<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.ul.ie/ceremonies/sir-gordon-smith-grieve-beveridge |title= Sir Gordon Smith Grieve Beveridge |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= University of Limerick |publisher= |access-date= June 17, 2025 |quote=}}</ref>      

==Family==
Gordon was the son of Victor Beattie Beveridge and Elizabeth (Fairbairn) Grieve. He married Geertruida Hillegonda Johanna Bruijn in 1963.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=12 April 2015 |archive-date=19 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919152306/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Publications==
He wrote more than 300 articles, papers and books, including ''Optimization: Theory and Practice'' (with Robert S. Schechter, published by McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. New York, 1970).<ref>{{cite book |title= 'Optimization: Theory and Practice (Chemical Engineering)' |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |publisher= |isbn= 0070051283 |quote=}}</ref>      

==Exhibitions==
* ''Engineering in the 80s'', [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh). Targeted at school leavers who were considering one of the branches of engineering as a career, this exhibition for the Council of Engineering Institutions was held at the [Royal Museum of Scotland](/source/Royal_Museum_of_Scotland) for three months. Exhibits ranged from coalface-cutting machines to needles for optical surgery.

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Image:GSGBExhibition.jpg|Engineering in the 80s Exhibition
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==Honorary degrees==
* [University of Dublin](/source/University_of_Dublin), Ireland
* [Connecticut College](/source/Connecticut_College), USA
* 1995 [Lodz University of Technology](/source/Lodz_University_of_Technology), Poland
* [Royal Irish Academy](/source/Royal_Irish_Academy), Ireland
* 1985            [University of Ulster](/source/University_of_Ulster), Northern Ireland
* 1994    DSc     [Queen's University of Kingston](/source/Queen's_University_at_Kingston), Canada
* 1995    Dsc     Queens University of Kingston, Canada
* 1995    LLD     [University of Ireland](/source/National_University_of_Ireland)
* 1995    LLD     [University of Limerick](/source/University_of_Limerick)
* 1997/98 DUniv   [Heriot-Watt University](/source/Heriot-Watt_University), Edinburgh <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title=Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates|website=1.hw.ac.uk|access-date=2016-04-04|archive-date=18 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418163907/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1998    LLD     [Queen's University of Belfast](/source/Queen's_University_of_Belfast), Belfast

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1995-05-22/Writtens-2.html House of Commons appointment to RWMAC]

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