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Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon

1815–76

Scottish civil engineer. A student of James David Forbes at Edinburgh. First regius professor of civil engineering and mechanics at the University of Glasgow, 1840–55. Engaged in a variety of practical engineering projects.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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