Sir Andrew Meikle Bryan FRSE (1 March 1893 – 26 June 1988) was a Scottish mining engineer and academic.
[1] After school, Bryan began work in a local colliery and studied at evening classes.
[4] Andrew Bryan was to hold this professorship until 1940, in which year he was appointed General Manager of the Shotts Iron Co. Ltd.[5] in Lanarkshire, Scotland (and despite its name this was now primarily a coal mining company), becoming a Director in 1942 and the company's Managing Director in 1944.
[9] In 1945 Bryan was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in March 1950 knighthood was conferred on him by HM King George VI at Buckingham Palace.
[10][11] Bryan was a member of various professional bodies during his career, serving as a council member and in positions of responsibility with most of them: The successor to a number of these bodies, the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining administers the award of the Sir Andrew Bryan Medal ‘'For sustained and outstanding contributions to the Institute and its activities.