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Donald Burgess McNeill was born on 1911 in Ireland, is a Physics and transport author from Northern Ireland. Discover Donald Burgess McNeill's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 99 years old?

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Occupation University lecturer
Age 99 years old
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Born 1911, 1911
Birthday 1911
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Date of death 8 August, 2010
Died Place Newtownards
Nationality Ireland

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1930

It was also while at Portora his first transport article was accepted by The Railway Magazine for publication in 1930.

As Portora school did not offer physics to advanced level McNeill self-studied to achieve the required level for Queen's University Belfast.

1931

NcNeill studied physics at Queen's University Belfast from 1931 to 1938 achieving PhD level.

Outside of academia he was one of a group who re-founded the Queen's rowing club of which he was later to serve one or more terms as president.

He was also a member of Queen's Officers' Training Corps.

1936

NcNeill had the honour to be chosen to represent Queens at the 1936 bi-centennial celebrations of Harvard University in America.

1938

In 1938 he gained an appointment as a physics lecturer at University College Southampton, Hampshire, England.

1939

His career was soon interrupted by enlistment to the army in 1939 at the start of World War II and he returned to Northern Ireland.

McNeill was assigned to the Royal Corps of Signals on enlistment in 1939 and was to ascend to the rank of Major during his service.

1945

He was briefly in Italy before becoming senior technical support to Army broadcasting; being released to resume university lecturing in December 1945, though he remained with the Territorial Army until 1954.

McNeill resumed as a physics lecturer at Southampton after the war, and was actively involved with the University Officers' Training Corps.

1953

His first assignment in Northern Ireland as part of the 53rd Welsh Brigade required him to deploy to the west of Dublin should the Germans invade the south.

He was also to serve in North Africa where he became chief instructor of signals.

In 1953 as the mace-bearing Esquire Bedell he assisted the institution to formally transition from Hartley University College to Southampton University with the chartered authority to award its own degrees.

He had the role of Assistant Dean to the Faculty of Science at the university, though he preferred the title Faculty secretary.

As an eccentric touch perhaps typical of the period he kept a in his room as an introductory icebreaker when communicating with new students.

1962

A key work he co-authored with co-worker Dr. Jerrard was A Dictionary of Scientific Units - Including dimensionless numbers and scales which ran to six editions between 1962 and 1993 and was translated into four languages.

1971

McNeill retired from Southampton University in 1971 and returned to Northern Ireland.

1972

In 1972, in the midst of The Troubles, he joined the non-sectarian Alliance Party.

1974

In 1974, on the death of his brother Sean, NcNeill took over chairmanship of the McNeill Group.

1978

He was subsequently invited to the board of trustees of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum becoming their chairman from 1978 to 1983.

As such he was honoured by a portrait painting by Rita Duffy depicting him by favourite locomotive, the JT Class No. 93.

His later years saw him continue to be involved with rowing with all the Lagan clubs and tutoring upcoming scullers with his megaphone from the shoreline.

His retirement saw him author and co-author a number of transport and historical publications.

His final work aged about 97 was a comparative study of Presbyterian Church hymnals.

2010

Donald Burgess McNeill (1911 – 8 August 2010) was a physics and transport history writer, with his most notable academic work "A Dictionary of Scientific Units - Including dimensionless numbers and scales co-authored with H. G. Jerrard whilst a lecturer at Southampton University. He was also a prolific writer on various modes of transport on the Island of Ireland and served as Chairman of Trustees of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Educated at Queen's University Belfast he helped resurrect their rowing club and was associated with sculling throughout his adult life. A member of the Territorial Army he served in the Royal Corps of Signals in World War II and was active in the Officers' Training Corps of both Queen's and Southampton universities and was awarded the Territorial Decoration (TD) for long service.

McNeill's father founded the Belfast-based engineering and construction company McNeill group at the beginning of the 20th century.

McNeill was educated at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, where he claimed he was administered corporal punishment by Samuel Beckett, his dormitory prefect.

He died two years later on 8 August 2010 aged 99.

His collection of transport books and ephemera has been combined with those of his brother-in-law, Frank Green, to constitute the "McNeill-Green Collection" at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

NcNeill was generally known as "DB" or "Mac".

He never married.

He was at one point an elder in the Presbyterian Church but latterly often liked to attend services at the Church of Ireland.

On his death he bequeathed his body to Queen's for research.