William Cleland
William Cleland (c1864-1934)
1934 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM CLELAND was a director and general manager of the Sheffield Testing Works, with which firm he had been connected for forty-five years.
He was a native of Coatbridge and served a three years' apprenticeship with Messrs. Murray and Patterson, Coatbridge.
He then obtained an exhibition for three years at the University of Glasgow, where he studied under Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and obtained a Thomson Scholarship.
From 1883 to 1886 he worked in the physical laboratory at the University of Glasgow and was then appointed demonstrator in the newly opened engineering laboratories of the Yorkshire College, Leeds.
In 1889 he was appointed manager of the Sheffield Testing Works, and later was made general manager and a director of the firm.
His death occurred on 12th July 1933, in his seventy-first year.
He had been a Member of the Institution since 1890.