Jesmond, St. Andrew's Cemetery, grave of Sir Claude D. Gibb

HER Number:
13213

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Jesmond, St. Andrew's Cemetery, grave of Sir Claude D. Gibb

Place:
Jesmond

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Grave Marker

Site Type: Specific:
Gravestone

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Sir Claude Dixon Gibb (1898-1959) was an industrialist. He was born in Australia and served as a pilot in France during the First World War. In 1924 he began working at C.A. Parsons & Co. Heaton Works. He rose from electrical engineering apprentice to Chairman and Managing Director. He proposed the application of atomic energy to produce electricity. Parsons provided the turbo alternators for the UK's first nuclear power station at Calder Hall in Cumbria in 1954. Gibb was knighted in 1945 and was awarded the FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) in 1946. A hall of residence at Northumbria University is named after him.

Easting:
2494

Northing:
6629

Grid Reference:
NZ24946629

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Alan Morgan, 2004, Beyond the Grave - Exploring Newcastle's Burial Grounds, page 91