Adam Scott

Adam Scott (c1855-1923), civil engineer in the UK and overseas.

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1923 Obituary

"The death is announced of Adam Scott, M. Inst. C.E ., which occurred in London on February 13th, 1923, at the age of sixty-eight. Mr. Scott was an engineer of high repute who early in life distinguished himself by his painstaking attention to detail in connection with the various engineering enterprises of consequence with which he was associated, dating back to something like 1880. There is evidence of Mr. Scott's talents, sagacious foresight and wide experience to be found on the Weaver Navigation, the Clyde, the Tyne, the Thames, and at such widely diverse places abroad as Brazil, Gibraltar, Chile and China, principally in relation to river, harbour and dock engineering tasks of huge magnitude.

Probably his most noteworthy engagement was that under the Admiralty of, Superintending Civil Engineer of the new harbour works and dockyard at Gibraltar, an undertaking started in 1893 and completed about 1906. These works were amongst the largest and most varied of the kind ever carried out anywhere, and involved the expenditure of several millions of pounds, and embraced three large breakwaters, dredging and blasting for the deepening of the enclosed harbour, three large dry docks with their caissons, &c., reclamations from the sea, wharf and retaining walls, large workshops, and store-houses on pile foundations, coaling sheds, offices and other building ; drainage and sewer works ; water supply, large water storage tanks, railway and viaduct; large underground magazines and shell stores; coaling depot; piercing a tunnel into the heart of the rock and much other work of a confidential nature. Mr. Scott read a paper dealing with the Gibraltar improvements before the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1914.....

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