Andrew Bryan

Who was Andrew Bryan?

Sir Andrew Bryan FRSE was a Scottish mining engineer.

Andrew Meikle Bryan was born on 1 March 1893, the son of John Bryan, of Hamilton, Lanarkshire, and was educated at Greenfields School and at the former Hamilton Academy and is listed as a notable former pupil of the school in the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association Magazine, February 1950, feature on Hamilton Academy in the article series 'Famous Scottish Schools'.

Following service in World War I Bryan graduated BSc in 1919 from the University of Glasgow, subsequently being awarded DSc and an Honorary LLD, both also from Glasgow.

An Inspector of Mines from 1920-32, in 1932 Bryan was appointed to the James S. Dixon Chair of Mining, in the University of Glasgow and the Royal Technical College. This Chair had been endowed in 1907 by another former pupil of Hamilton Academy, James Stedman Dixon. Andrew Bryan was to hold this professorship until 1940, in which year he was appointed General Manager of the Shotts Iron Co. Ltd., becoming a Director in 1942 and the company’s managing Director in 1944.