Claude Gibb

Sir Claude Dixon Gibb (29 June 1898 – 15 January 1959) was a South Australian engineer with a considerable career in Great Britain.

History Gibb was born in Queenstown, South Australia, a son of John Gilbert Gibb (1867–1935) and his wife Caroline Elizabeth Gibb, née Dixon (1868 – 10 December 1946) of New Street, Queenstown, later of Prince Street, Alberton. He was educated at Alberton Primary School and LeFevre High School, where he won a scholarship to the South Australian School of Mines and Industries, where he studied mechanical engineering and won a gold medal.

He was apprenticed as an electrical mechanic to Gibb & Miller, engineers of Port Road, Port Adelaide. He had served three years (another reference has him working for the Adelaide Cement Company at this time) He took his mechanical and electrical engineering diploma at the School of Mines in 1922 which entitled him to £500 and two years of study abroad. He was awarded a master's degree in 1927.

Family Gibb married Margaret Harris in Devon, England, on 26 December 1925.

Gibb had two brothers and one sister: Alfred John Gibb (1892–1959), managing director of the engineering firm Gibb & Miller William George Gibb (1891–1961), of the carrying firm of W. & R. Gibb Vera Jessie Gibb (1904–1992), married Ewen McIntyre Waterman (1901–1982) in 1928

Recognition He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science of Durham University He was awarded a Doctor of Science in Engineering by London University He was awarded a CBE, in 1942 in recognition of his work for the war effort He was knighted in the 1945 New Year Honours. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946, an unusual honor for an engineer He was a vice-president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers He was a vice-president of the Engineering section of the British Association He gave the first Robin Memorial Lecture at the University of Adelaide, in memory of Prof. Roland. C. Robin (1889–1951) Awarded James Watt International Gold Medal 1959 His name is commemorated by a bronze plaque on North Terrace, Adelaide. High-rise halls of residence at Newcastle Polytechnic (now the University of Northumbria) were named for him following their construction in 1965.