Old Photograph Durie Street Leven Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Durie Street, Leven, Fife, Scotland. Alexander Robert Horne, born 1881, died 1953, was a Scottish engineer and author. He was born in Leven, Fife in 1881. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. He was apprenticed as an engineer to James Milne & Sons Ltd of Milton House Works in the Canongate in Edinburgh around 1896. He then went to the University of London in England to formally train as an engineer. In 1910 he obtained a post as Professor of Engineering at Robert Gordons College in Aberdeen, aged only 29. He lived at 374 Great Western Road in Aberdeen. In 1920 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, Richard Stanfield, George Adam Smith and John Taylor Ewen. In 1929 he moved to Heriot Watt University as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and stayed there until retiral in 1945. He died in Edinburgh on 17 May 1953.



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