13 Facts About Edmund Hambly

Dr Edmund Cadbury Hambly was a British structural engineer.

Edmund Hambly was born in Seer Green, near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire in 1942.

Edmund Hambly went to Eton College prior to studying the engineering tripos at Cambridge University.

Edmund Hambly excelled there gaining a first class honours degree and claiming the prize in structural engineering.

Edmund Hambly devised new models and work methods for the approximation of structural behaviour which he published in 1976 in his first book, Bridge Deck Behaviour.

Edmund Hambly was asked by the oil and gas extraction industries to advise upon offshore platforms damaged by wave fatigue and collisions.

Edmund Hambly served as chairman of the Offshore Engineering Society between 1989 and 1990.

Edmund Hambly worked as a visiting professor at Oxford University from 1989 to 1992 lecturing in structural analysis, he wrote his third book, Structural Analysis by Example to provide examples of calculations for students.

Edmund Hambly had a keen interest in the provision of better social housing and encouraging community spirit as well as a quaker upbringing, he united these beliefs in his service as a trustee to the Bournville Village Trust between 1979 and 1988.

Edmund Hambly was created a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1990 and was keen to use this to promote engineering to young people and society as a whole.

Edmund Hambly was elected vice-president in 1991 and President in 1994.

Edmund Hambly used his inaugural address to show the need to attract students into engineering degrees and to provide more sustainable solutions to engineering problems.

Edmund Hambly was posthumously awarded an honorary doctorate of science by Nottingham University in 1996.