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'''Sir Gordon Smith Grieve Beveridge''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSA|FRSE|MRIA|FIChemE|FEng}} (28 November 1933  – 28 August 1999) was a Scottish chemist. He served as president and vice-chancellor of [[Queen's University Belfast|Queen's University of Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]], from 1986 to 1997. He was knighted in 1994 for his services to higher education and died in [[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 ==
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Sir Gordon was born in [[St Andrews]], Fife and brought up in Inverness. He attended [[Inverness Royal Academy]], followed by the [[University of Glasgow]], where he studied engineering. He had a distinguished career and completed his PhD at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. He spent some time at the [[University of Minnesota]] as a Harkness Fellow and a visiting professor at the [[University of Texas]]. In 1967, he moved to [[Heriot-Watt University]] in Edinburgh, and, from 1971 to 1986, was professor of chemical engineering and head of the Department of the Chemical and Process Engineering at the [[University of Strathclyde]] in Glasgow.

Among his many posts, he was a Fellow and an Officer of the [[Royal Academy of Engineering]], a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]], a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Arts]], a member of the [[Royal Irish Academy]] and a Companion of the Institute of Management.

In 1981, he was a founder member of the [[Engineering Council]], serving 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]]. He was President of QUA in 1989. He was chairman of the Governments 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.

==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).

== Exhibitions ==
* ''Engineering in the 80s'', [[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]] for three months. Exhibits ranged from coalface-cutting machines to needles for optical surgery.

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== Honorary degrees ==
*[[University of Dublin]], Ireland
*[[Connecticut College]], USA
*1995 [[Lodz University of Technology]], Poland
*[[Royal Irish Academy]], Ireland
*1985            [[University of Ulster]], Northern Ireland
*1994    DSc     [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University of Kingston]], Canada
*1995    Dsc     Queens University of Kingston, Canada
*1995    LLD     [[National University of Ireland|University of Ireland]]
*1995    LLD     [[University of Limerick]]
*1997/98 DUniv   [[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]], 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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