Herbert Haslegrave

Herbert Leslie Haslegrave (1902–1999) was a British engineering academic who developed Loughborough Technical College into Loughborough University of Technology, and was its first Vice-Chancellor.

Education

Haslegrave was born in Yorkshire in 1902 and went to Wakefield Grammar School.[1] He continued studying part-time at Bradford Technical College whilst working as an engineering apprentice with the English Electric Company, and gained an External degree of the University of London with first class honours.[2] He then obtained a Whitworth Senior Scholarship[3] which enabled him to go to Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he gained first class honours in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos and several awards.[1][2]

Career

After a short period in industry he became a college lecturer, joining Wolverhampton & Staffordshire Technical College in 1931, then Bradford Technical College in 1932 and Loughborough College in 1935. He then held a series of posts as Principal of colleges, respectively of St Helen’s Technical College, Barnsley Technical College and Leicester College of Technology.[2] In 1953 he became Principal of Loughborough College and developed it into a College of Advanced Technology in 1957 and to the UK’s first Technical University, Loughborough University of Technology in 1966.[1] He was its first Vice-Chancellor until his retirement in 1966. In 1972, Haslegrave was President of the Whitworth Society.[3] He died in September 1999.[2]

References

1. Loughborough University 40th Anniversary Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine History – Vice-Chancellors of the University
2. 175 Heroes of Bradford College Herbert Haslegrave
3. The Whitworth Register, 2017. The Whitworth Society. pp. 37, 201.

Further reading

• The Independent 23 October 1999 Obituary: Herbert Haslegrave (D. C. Freshwater)

Academic offices
Preceded by first	Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University 1966–1967	Succeeded by Elfyn Richards