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Andrew Jardine was born on 25 March 1910 and was the oldest child of Andrew Jardine, a licensed grocer and wine merchant, and his wife, Katherine Gibb Grönbech, a medical missionary. The family lived at 'Thornton' on Thorn Drive, Bearsden, near Glasgow and Andrew Jardine junior was educated at Bearsden Academy and Allan Glen's School. He subsequently trained as an engineer, serving apprenticeships with John Brown & Company Ltd of Clydebank, where he worked on the Queen Mary, and with Mavor and Coulson, coal cutters. His apprentice master there, Sam Mavor, was a Governor of the Royal Technical College of Glasgow (RTC).

While pursuing his apprenticeship by day, Jardine enrolled for an evening class in Workshop Organization and Management at the RTC in session 1931-1932, completing this successfully to gain a first class certificate of merit. He also took an evening class in Mathematics that session. Over the next few years, Jardine enrolled for further evening studies at the RTC, taking classes in Mathematics and Engineering Metallurgy in session 1932-1933; Engineering Metallurgy, Metallography Lectures and Metallography Laboratory in session 1933-1934, and Engineering Economics in session 1934-1935. His younger sister, Isabella, also enrolled for an evening course in Botany at the RTC in session 1932-1933. During his studies, Jardine joined the RTC Athletic Club and was Art Editor of the student magazine, 'The Mask'. He also served successively as President and Treasurer of the Evening Students' Representative Council. In 1933, he received the Mavor and Coulson Gold Medal as the best Fifth Year Engineering Apprentice in the firm.

Jardine moved to London in the mid-1930s and married Jessie Cunningham Kinnear of Crail, Fife, in 1936. He also saw wartime service from 1939-1947: in Air Raid Precautions (ARP), as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Special Branch), and as a Major in the Corps of Royal Engineers. He later served as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army Emergency Reserve.

In London, Jardine forged a successful career as a consulting engineer, establishing the firm of Andrew Jardine and Company: Assessors; Engineering and Industrial Consultants; Engineering; Marine and General Surveyors. He qualified as a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) and was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (F.I.Mech.E), a Fellow of the Welding Institute (F.Weld.I.) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (F.R.S.A.). He maintained his connections with Allan Glen's School through the Allan Glen's Old Boys' Club (London), of which he was Chairman, and with the Royal Technical College through his membership of its Former Students' Association (London branch).
He was also actively involved in local politics, initially as a member of Chiswick Borough Council (1949-1955), where he was Honorary Borough Marshal from 1952-1955. Subsequent appointments included: Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex (1958); Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Middlesex (1962); Middlesex County Councillor (1954-1958 and 1961-1965); and Alderman of Greater London Council (1964-1967), where he was also Vice Chairman of the Public Health Services Committee, Vice Chairman of the Public Services Committee, Chairman of the Ambulance Committee and Chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee. He was part of the St John's Ambulance Brigade (1956-1966) and was created a Serving Brother of the Order of St John in 1969. He was also a member of the Metropolitan Water Board (1955-1958 and 1962-1973, serving as Chairman from 1968-1969); Conservator of the River Thames (1957-1958 and 1961); Chairman of the London and South Eastern Regional Committee of the British Waterworks Association (1968-1972); Vice Chairman of the Thames Bridges Joint Committee (1963-1964); Governor of Brunel College of Technology (1956-1958), and Chairman of the Governors of Chiswick Polytechnic (1962-1965 and 1968-1971).

Jardine held various other voluntary positions, including President of the British Legion; member of Hounslow District Community Health Council (1974); member of the Department of Health and Social Security's Central Advisory Committee (1970), and Chairman of Hounslow, Hammersmith and Richmond War Pensions Committee. He was greatly interested in water supply and the River Thames and strove to raise the recognised skill status of firefighters and ambulance crews and to standardise the firefighting equipment used by different County Brigades. He was appointed MBE in 1978 and died in 1984.

James Walter Fell was a student of chemistry at Anderson's University, Glasgow from 1862 to 1864.

Andrew Cunningham was a student at the Glasgow Mechanics' Institution from 1867 to 1868.

David Flint was a day and evening student of Mining and Chemistry at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College from 1891 to 1896.

Archibald Leitch was a Mechanical Engineering and Mining evening student at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College from 1897 to 1898.

In 1967, a new Department of Electronic Science and Telecommunications separated from the original single Department of Electrical Engineering in recognition of the growing importance of these specialisations.

In 1982, the Department of Electronic Science and Telecommunications merged with the Department of Electrical Engineering to form the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

The Young Chair of Technical Chemistry was established in 1870 as the result of a munificent gift by James 'Paraffin' Young (1811-1883). In 1957 the Department of Technical Chemistry was renamed the Department of Chemical Technology. In 1964 the departments of Chemical Technology and Chemistry merged to form the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

The Department of Chemistry originated in 1830 with the appointment of the first independent Professor of Chemistry. Prior to this, chemistry instruction had been provided as an adjunct to medicine or natural philosophy and was first taught in 1796 at Anderson's Institution (antecedent of the University of Strathclyde). In 1964, the Department of Chemistry merged with the Department of Chemical Technology to form the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Following posts with Manchester Public Libraries and the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Lawrence Ardern was librarian at the Scottish College of Commerce, 1962-1964, and deputy librarian at the University of Strathclyde, 1964-1972. He was an expert in the field of micrographics. Following his retirement, he opened a bookshop in Kirkcudbright.

John Busby graduated from the University of Nottingham. After National Service, he joined ICI, working in Manchester, Teesside and Ardeer. He was director of the Centre for Industrial Innovation at the University of Strathclyde from its inception in 1969 to his retirement in 1972.

The Centre for Industrial Innovation was established by the University of Strathclyde in 1969 primarily to provide a contract research and development service for industrial organisations, particularly smaller organisations which could not maintain their own facilities.

David Lever obtained an associateship in chemistry at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow in 1916. Following several years of commercial work, he was appointed Superintendent of the School of Sugar Manufacture at the Royal Technical College.

Andrew Sykes graduated with an MA in history from the University of Glasgow in 1950 and was awarded a PhD in 1960. Following several years working in industry, Sykes joined the Scottish College of Commerce in 1959. In 1964, when the College became part of the University of Strathclyde, he was appointed reader in sociology. He became professor of sociology in 1967.

In 1982, the Department of Biology merged with the Departments of Food Science and Nutrition, Applied Microbiology, and Biochemistry, as well as the Biotechnology Unit to from the Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology.

In 1982, the Department of Food Science and Nutrition merged with the Departments of Applied Microbiology, Biology, and Biochemistry, as well as the Biotechnology Unit to from the Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology.