institutions nationality discipline birth_date article_title name
chartered -rrb- institution of civil engineers -lrb- president 1983-84 -rrb- fellow institution of the royal academy of engineering of highways and transportation -lrb- president 1978-79 british civil 1928 james anthony gaffney
 james anthony gaffney
james anthony gaffney

james anthony gaffney , cbe , fice , freng , fciht -lrb- born 1928 -rrb- is a british civil engineer .
gaffney was born in the rhymney valley , south wales in 1928 and holds bsc and dsc degrees .
he was the county engineer for the west riding of yorkshire at the time of the construction of scammonden reservoir and m62 in the late 1960s .
he was elected president of the chartered institution of highways and transportation for the 1978-79 session and elected president of the institution of civil engineers for the 1983-84 session .
as part of the 1984 queen 's birthday honours gaffney was , on 16 june , appointed a commander of the order of the british empire , in the civil division .
at one point he was director of engineering services at the west yorkshire metropolitan county council .
