Donald Burgess McNeill (1911—2010) was a physics and transport history writer, with his most notable academic work "A Dictionary of Scientific Units - Including dimensionless numbers and scales co-authored with H. G. Jerrard whilst a lecturer at Southampton University. He was also a prolific writer on various modes of transport on the Island of Ireland and served as Chairman of Trustees of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Educated at Queen's University Belfast he helped resurrect their rowing club and was associated sculling throughout his adult life. A member of the Territorial Army he served in the Royal Corps of Signals in World War II and was active in the Officers' Training Corps of both Queen's and Southampton universities and was awarded the Territorial Decoration (TD) for long