# Maurice Say

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{{Short description|British electrical engineer}}
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Prof '''Maurice George Say''' [FRSE](/source/FRSE) (1902&ndash;1992) was a 20th-century British electrical engineer who served as the head of electrical engineering at [Heriot-Watt College](/source/Heriot-Watt_College) for 30 years. Friends knew him as '''Dick Say''' and in authorship he is '''M. G. Say'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Maurice_George_Say|title=Maurice George Say - Graces Guide}}</ref>

==Life==
He was born in [London](/source/London) on 8 June 1902 the son of Henry Robert Say and his wife, Elizabeth Sarah Eckersall. He was educated at [Colfe's Grammar School](/source/Colfe's_Grammar_School) in [Horn Park](/source/Horn_Park) east of London. He then studied electrical engineering at [Imperial College, London](/source/Imperial_College%2C_London) under Prof T Mather, G W O Howe and Parker Smith, graduating BSc in 1921. Continuing as a postgraduate he studied commutator machines and gained an MSc before gaining a doctorate (PhD) on the topic of railway electrification (assisted by Sir [Philip Dawson](/source/Philip_Dawson)).<ref>{{cite web|title=Maurice George Say|date=|website=www.rse.mtcserver6.com|url=http://www.rse.mtcserver6.com/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/say_maurice.pdf|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521021834/http://www.rse.mtcserver6.com/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/say_maurice.pdf|archive-date=2018-05-21|url-status=dead}}</ref>

After a brief spell in industry he joined the Royal Technical College in [Glasgow](/source/Glasgow) in 1926. In 1933 he received a professorship from Heriot-Watt in [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh), remaining there for the remainder of his career.

In 1935 he was elected a Fellow of the [Royal Society of Edinburgh](/source/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh). His proposers were [James Cameron Smail](/source/James_Cameron_Smail), [Alexander Robert Horne](/source/Alexander_Robert_Horne), Sir [Thomas Hudson Beare](/source/Thomas_Hudson_Beare), and [John Brown Clark](/source/John_Brown_Clark).<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=[The Royal Society of Edinburgh](/source/The_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh)|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|accessdate=2018-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1960/61 he presented the [Faraday Lectures](/source/Faraday_Lectures) to the [Institution of Electrical Engineers](/source/Institution_of_Electrical_Engineers). In 1960 he also presented the [Bernard Price Memorial Lecture](/source/Bernard_Price_Memorial_Lecture) in South Africa.

He retired in 1963 just before Heriot Watt was given university status. They awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1985.

==Death==
He died on 14 November 1992.

==Family==

In 1926, he married Eileen Mary Ashworth.  They had a daughter, Monica Ashworth Say (born on 5 November 1927 in Glasgow), and a son, David Giles Ashworth Say (born on 11 May 1939 in Glasgow).

==Publications==

*''Performance and Design of A/C Machines'' (1936)
*''Electrical Engineers Reference Book'' (1945) and many later editions
*''Analogue and Digital Computers'' (1960)
*''Unified Theory of Electromagnetic Machines'' (1971)
*''A/C Machines'' (1983)
*''D/C Machines'' (1986) (co-written with [Eric Openshaw Taylor](/source/Eric_Openshaw_Taylor))<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bPFSAAAAMAAJ |title = Direct Current Machines|isbn = 9780273024576|last1 = Say|first1 = Maurice George|last2 = Taylor|first2 = Eric Openshaw|year = 1986|publisher=Pitman Publishing Limited}}</ref>
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