E. Lightfoot
1954 Bio Note [1]
Mr. Lightfoot was educated at Henry Smith School, Hartlepool, and at King's College, London, where he graduated with first class honours in 1941.
After two years with Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons, Ltd., on public works construction he served as a subaltern in the Royal Engineers in Italy. In 1946 he returned to King's College for further studies in structural analysis, for which he was awarded the M.Sc. degree.
After two years with the City Engineer, at York, mostly on the design of sewage pumping stations, and two years as senior assistant in the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department at Huddersfield Technical College, he was appointed in 1951 as a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Leeds, where he is at present specializing in structural and stress analysis.