Background
PATON, Thomas Angus Lyall was born on May 10, 1905 in Jersey, Imperial Order of the Crown of India Son of Thomas Lyall Paton and Janet Gibb.
PATON, Thomas Angus Lyall was born on May 10, 1905 in Jersey, Imperial Order of the Crown of India Son of Thomas Lyall Paton and Janet Gibb.
Cheltenham College, and University College London.
Joined Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners 1925, Partner 1938, Senior Partner 1955-1977, Senior Consultant 1977-1984. Work in United Kingdom, Canada, Burma and Turkey on harbour works, hydroelectric schemes and industrial projects. Responsible for design and superv ision of many projects, including Owen Falls and Kariba hydroelectric schemes and Indus Basin project, West. Pakistan.
President Institute of Civil Engineers 71.
Chairman Council of Engineering Instituts 1973. Vice-President Royal Society 1976-1978.
Founder Fellow Fellowship of Engineering (United Kingdom) 1976. Fellow University College London 1952, Imperial College, London 1978: Foreign Association National Academy, of Engineering United States of America 1979.
Honorary Doctorate.ScJEng.) (London) 1977, (Bristol) 1981.
Doctorate. University (Surrey) 1986.
Married Eleanor Joan Delme-Murray (died in 1964).