Professor Robert Francis Boucher, CBE, FREng (25 April 1940 – 25 March 2009), usually known as Bob Boucher, was a British academic, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 2001 to 2007.
Boucher was born in Wembley on 25 April 1940 and was educated at St Ignatius' College, Stamford Hill, Borough Polytechnic, London, and gained a PhD from the University of Nottingham in Mechanical Engineering in 1966.
Before his post at Sheffield University, he was Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Sheffield. and then he was Vice-Chancellor and Principal of UMIST from 1995-2000. Boucher was Chairman of the International Sector Group of Universities UK and Treasurer of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
Bob Boucher was awarded a CBE in 2000 "for services to Engineering Research, Industry and Education". He died suddenly on 25 March 2009.
Famous quotes containing the word bob:
“English Bob: What I heard was that you fell off your horse, drunk, of course, and that you broke your bloody neck.
Little Bill Daggett: I heard that one myself, Bob. Hell, I even thought I was dead. ‘Til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska.”
—David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. English Bob (Richard Harris)