Brigadier-General Magnus Mowat CBE TD FRSE (1875–1953) was a Scottish railway engineer.
His first employment as an Engineer was as assistant in building the Leicester section for the Great Central Railway.
In 1901 he joined Robert McAlpine & Son as engineer for the new Partick drainage system.
In 1919 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by King George V. In October 1920 he replaced Edgar Worthington as Secretary of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
[2] He died at Ebor House in East Sheen south-west of London on 19 January 1953.