Granville M. Read

Granville Moorman Read (March 18, 1894 – December 1, 1962) was an American mechanical engineer and Chief Engineer at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. from 1946 to 1959. In 1955 the ASME awarded Read the ASME Medal ""for his outstanding leadership in developing men and in organizing and completing projects of extraordinary national and industrial importance."

Biography Youth, education and early career Read was born in Bedford County, Virginia in 1894, son of Daniel Warwick Read and Laura Moorman Read. His father was a lawyer and teacher, and both parents had been teachers at the New London Academy from 1885 to 1896. From 1946 to 1959 Raed was Chief Engineer at Du Pont as successor of E.G. Ackart. On May 29, 1960 the North Carolina State University awarded Read an Honorary degree.

Home and family Read lived at the stately home, called Read-Moor, in Bedford County, Virginia near the New London Academy on Route 811. Read bought it in 1936 from his uncle Barlow Read, the original owner. Read remodelled and modernized the old house and named it Read-Moor.

Read died at his home in Westover Hills, Wilmington, Delaware on December 1, 1962.