John Horlock

Sir John Horlock
FRS FREng
Born John Harold Horlock
(1928-04-19)19 April 1928
Edmonton, Middlesex
Died 22 May 2015(2015-05-22)
Nationality British
Spouse(s) Sheila Stutely (m. 1953)
Children Alison, Tim, Jane
Parent(s) Harold and Olive Horlock

Engineering career

Discipline Turbomachinery
Institutions University of Liverpool
University of Salford
Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Sir John Harold Horlock FRS[1] FREng[2] (19 April 1928 - 22 May 2015),[3][4][5] was a British professor of mechanical engineering, and was Vice-Chancellor of both the Open University[6] and the University of Salford, as well as Vice-President of the Royal Society.[7] He was elected in 1977 a Fellow[2] of the Royal Academy of Engineering[2]

Education and early life

Horlock was raised in North London and attended The Latymer School, Edmonton. He went from there to St John's College, Cambridge where he gained his PhD in 1958.[7]

Career

In spite of a job offer by Rolls-Royce, Horlock accepted the role of Professor and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Liverpool.

He returned to Cambridge as Professor of Engineering in 1967, and in 1973 he founded the department's Whittle Laboratory, also becoming its Director.[8]

In 1981 Horlock began working for the Open University. Whilst there he tackled the government over spending cuts, introduced a taught postgraduate masters programme, and expanded the OU.

Following his retirement he was treasurer and later vice-president of the Royal Society.[7]

Research

Horlock's main area of research is turbomachinery, particularly gas turbines, compressors and Jet engines.[7]

Selected books and book chapters

  • Horlock, John H (1958). Axial flow compressors fluid mechanics & thermodynamics. Oxford, UK: Butterworth & Co Publishers Ltd. 
  • Horlock, John H (1966). Axial flow turbines. Oxford, UK: Butterworth & Co Publishers Ltd. ISBN 9780408122504. 
  • Horlock, John H (1973). Axial flow compressors, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. Huntington, N.Y: R.E. Krieger Pub. Co. ISBN 9780882750965. 
  • Horlock, John H (1978). Actuator disk theory: discontinuities in thermo fluid dynamics. London New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070303607. 
  • Horlock, John H (1997). Cogeneration—combined heat and power (CHP): thermodynamics and economics. Malabar, Fla: Krieger Pub. ISBN 9780894649288. 
  • Horlock, John H (2002). Combined power plants: including combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants. Malabar, FL: Krieger Pub. ISBN 9781575241975. 
  • Horlock, John H (1997), "Keynote address", in Hah, Chunhill, Turbomachinery fluid dynamics and heat transfer: based on the proceedings of the symposium held at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, June 13–14, 1995: on the occasion of Dr. B. Lakshminarayana's 60th birthday, New York: M. Dekker, pp. 1–12, ISBN 9780824798291 

Selected Journal articles

Honours and awards

Horlock won numerous awards including:

The Horlock Building, named after John Horlock, Open University's Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes.

The Horlock building on the Open University's Walton Hall campus was named in his honour in 1989,[7] and the Association of Open University Graduates' Sir John Horlock Award for Science was established two years later in 1991.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 Denton, J. D.; Gostelow, J. P. (2016). "Sir John Harold Horlock FREng. 19 April 1928 — 22 May 2015". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2016.0009.
  2. 1 2 3 "List of Fellows".
  3. ↑ HORLOCK, Sir John (Harold), Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  4. ↑ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 19 April 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2014. Prof Sir John Horlock, Vice–Chancellor, Open University, 1981–90, 84
  5. ↑ Sir John Horlock: Engineer who led campaign to prevent closure of the Open University
  6. ↑ John Horlock, History of the Open University
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "History of the OU – John Horlock". Open University. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  8. 1 2 "The AOUG Sir John Horlock Award for Science". Association of Open University Graduates (AOUG). Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  9. ↑ webperson@hw.ac.uk. "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  10. ↑ "New Year Honours List 1996". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (New Zealand). January 1996. Retrieved 14 April 2014. Note: Text as published in the New Zealand Gazette (Special), Wellington: Friday, 19 January 1996 – Issue No. 4 (pp.121 – 124)
  11. ↑ The International Who's Who 2004. p. 753.

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