Donald Reeve

Donald Reeve
Born1923
Long Buckby, Northamptonshire
Died1994
NationalityBritish
Engineering career
DisciplineCivil
InstitutionsInstitution of Civil Engineers (president)

Donald Arthur David Reeve CBE (1923–1994) was a British civil engineer.

Reeve was born in 1923 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire.[1][2] He became Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive of the Severn Trent Water Authority by 1985 when he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours.[3] Reeve was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the November 1985 to November 1986 session.[4] On 22 May 1986, he officially named a British Rail Class 47 locomotive (no. 47366) as The Institution of Civil Engineers at Liverpool Lime Street railway station.[5] Locomotive 47366 was scrapped in 1999 but the name had been officially transferred to locomotive number 47969, another British Rail Class 47, on 2 September 1991.[6][7] This unit (renumbered 47540) was withdrawn from service in 2003 and is currently located at the Wensleydale Railway, a heritage railway line.[7] Reeve himself died in 1994 in the West Midlands.[1]


References

  1. ^ a b "Johnson Family Tree". Ancestry.com.
  2. ^ Watson, Garth (1989). The Smeatonians: the Society of Civil Engineers. London: Thomas Telford Ltd. p. 175. ISBN 9780727715265.
  3. ^ "No. 50154". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1985. p. 8.
  4. ^ Watson 1988, p. 254.
  5. ^ "Number 47366". The 47's. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  6. ^ "47366". BRDatabase. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  7. ^ a b "Number 47975". The 47's. Retrieved 4 March 2012.

Bibliography

  • Watson, Garth (1988), The Civils, Thomas Telford Ltd, ISBN 0-7277-0392-7


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