John George Morrison
John George Morrison (c1894-1951)
1953 Obituary [1]
JOHN GEORGE MORRISON, M.SC. Tech., spent the greater part of his career as a teacher of engineering. He received his general education at Hindley Grammar School, Lancashire, and his technical training at Openshaw Technical School and Manchester Municipal College of Technology, where he obtained an Associateship and a university scholarship, graduating B.Sc. Tech., with first-class honours in engineering in 1932. A year later he obtained the degree of M.Sc.
He served an apprenticeship in Manchester with Belsize Motors, Ltd., from 1910 to 1913 and, following some experience as an improver at the Siddeley-Deasy repair depot, he joined the staff of the Austin Motor Company, Ltd., for which he was engaged, at the repair depot in Manchester, for the next three years.
On the termination of a brief period of war service as chief motor mechanic in the motor-boat section of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve he went into business in 1919 on his own account as a motor engineer, carrying out repairs and also acting as a consultant.
During 1929-34 he obtained his university degrees and was a research student. He then began his career as a teacher with the post of assistant lecturer in mechanical engineering at the University of Manchester and the College of Technology. In this capacity he was responsible to the Principal for laboratory classes and lectures on internal-combustion and heat engines in addition to lectures on mechanics.
In 1938 he became senior lecturer in mechanical engineering at the School of Technology, Oxford. Subsequently he held a position in the engineering department of Leeds University, but in 1942 he moved again to Birmingham, where he was engaged on similar duties at Aston Technical College.
Finally, in 1950, he was appointed Principal of Llanelly Technical College. Mr. Morrison, whose death occurred on 14th October 1951 at the age of fifty-seven, was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1936.