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Sir Horace William Alexander Francis CBE FREng (born 31 August 1926) is a British civil engineer. ==Early life and career== Francis was born in Clydebank, Scotland on 31 August 1926, son of Horace Fairie Francis and his wife Jane McMinn Murray〔'FRANCIS, Sir (Horace) William (Alexander)', Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012, (accessed 31 Dec 2012 ).〕 and studied at Glasgow's Royal Technical College, which is now part of Strathclyde University. He married in 1949 Gwendoline Maud Dorricott and has two sons and two daughters. He has worked on many construction projects in the United Kingdom and abroad including manufacturing facilities, bridges, power stations and offshore structures.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.firstforuminternational.com/construction/speakers.html )〕 He spent 25 years working with the engineering contractor Tarmac plc and was the company's chief operating officer and vice-chairman.〔 Francis has also served as executive director of construction for the Trafalgar House conglomerate and as non-executive director of its oil and gas interests.〔 He has worked as a government advisor for approximately 30 years, serving on several advisory boards such as the British Overseas Trade Board and the Export Credit Guarantee Department.〔 Francis has also worked as a director of the British Railways Board between 1994 and 1997 and as chairman of the Black Country Development Corporation.〔〔 On 1 November 1982 Francis was appointed major in the British Army's Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an invitation-only, unpaid unit of 60 engineering and logistics professionals that provide advice to the British armed forces on specialist and technical matters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/network_of_advisors.pdf )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.army.mod.uk/royalengineers/units/28737.aspx )〕 He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 8 July 1986 and became supernumerary to the unit on 17 August 1992. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Francis (civil engineer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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