Education
He attended the National Labor Conference at Washington, United States of America in 1910 as an employers" representative.
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Archibald Ross
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He was 18 years of age when he became a pupil of Messrs. R & West Hawthorn at their Street.Peters Works, Newcastle upon Tyne in England and all his working life was spent with this well-known engineering and shipbuilding company. During Sir Archibald"s regime turbines and boilers for some of the heaviest units in the Royal Navy were built.
His work on the Merchant Shipbuilding Advisory Committee and on the Admiralty Shipbuilding Council was recognized officially in June 1921, when he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, this following the Commander of the Order of the British Empire that he had been awarded three years previously.
He served two terms as President of the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, and was a director of Messrs. Ruston-Bucyrus Limited, specialists in excavating machinery which incorporated the old established firms of Ruston and Hornsby Limited. of Lincoln and the Bucyrus-Erie Company of South Milwaukee United States of America. He was a great lover of music and president of the North of England Musical Tournament.
One son, George Campbell Ross, Lieutenant Commander was Chief Engineering Officer of the battleship HMS Rodney and later Admiral of the Royal Navy.
Membership
He was also a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on the Council of the Institution of Naval Architects, and a member of the Institute of Metals.
