BOVEY

UNITED KINGDOM (see also List of Individuals)

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7.5.1852 Torquay/UK - 2.2.1912 Eastbourne/UK

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Henry Taylor Bovey proceeded in due course to the Queens' College in Cambridge, where he graduated in the mathematical tripos of 1873. He then moved to the Liverpool docks and two years later joined the dockyard staff as an assistant engineer. In 1878 he was appointed to the chair of civil engineering and applied mechanics of the McGill University, Montreal, Canada, an office he held for 20 years. In 1902, he was Vice-President of Mechanical Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1909 Bovey was the first rector of the newly founded Imperial College in London, but resigned the following year owing to ill health.

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Bovey was one of the founders of the Liverpool Society of Engineers, and the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, for which he acted also as the secretary and in 1900 as president. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1902, an Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge from 1906 and of the Royal Society of Canada. He authored the book Hydraulics, one of the few books up till then printed in England on engineering questions in hydraulics. Although he had a mathematical background, Bovey developed the engineering education significantly in Canada. He was able to obtain important funding to make out of McGill the best engineering university of the continent, as he mentioned upon leaving back for England. His hydraulics book is one of the few publications available from him, a person that has mainly advanced engineering education.

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_{Anonymous (1920). Who was who 1897-1916: 78-79. Black: London.}

_{Bovey, H.T. (1881). Cribwork in Canada. Minutes Proc. Institution of Civil Engineers 63(1): 268-272.}

_{Bovey, H.T., Farmer, J.T. (1898). Hydraulic laboratory, McGill University. Trans. Canadian Society Civil Engineers 12: 85-106.}

_{Bovey, H.T. (1900). A treatise on hydraulics. Wiley: New York.}

_{Wallace, W.S. (1945). Bovey. Dictionary of Canadian biography 1: 68. MacMillan: Toronto.}