| Authorised form of name | Feilden; Geoffrey Bertram Robert (1917 - 2004) |
| Dates | 1917 - 2004 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 20/02/1917 |
| Place of death | Painswick, Gloucestershire |
| Date of death | 01/05/2004 |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Activity | Education:
Early childhood spent in Canada, returned to England aged eight to begin education; Bedford School; King's College Cambridge read mechanical sciences and then economics (graduated in 1939)
Career:
Unilever (1939), worked with Frank Whittle on jet engines during WW2 (1940-1946); recruited by Ruston and Hornsby, Lincoln to work on industrial gas turbines (1946-1949), Chief Engineer, Turbine Department (1949-1954), Engineering Director (1954-1959); managing director, Hawker Siddeley Brush Turbines (1959-1961); group technical director, Davy-Ashmore (1961-1968); Chairman, Committee on Engineering Design producing Feilden report on engineering design commissioned by Lord Hailsham, Minister for Science (1963); Deputy Director General (1968-1970), Director General (1970-1981), British Standards Institution; president, European Committee on Standardisation; continued to work after retirement in 1982 through Feilden Associates; founder fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; honorary doctorates from University of Loughborough; Queen's University, Belfast; University of Lincoln; freedom of the City of Lincoln (2003)
Honours:
CBE 1966 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1959 |
| Age at election | 42 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1962-1963, 1966-1969; VP 1967-1969 |
| Relationships | Son of Major Robert Humphrey Feilden; married (1946) Elizabeth Gorton (marriage dissolved, 1961); married Diana Angier (nee Lloyd) |
| Source | References:
G B R Feilden, 'Lionel Haworth', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 195-221, plate
Sources:
Obituary in The Times (31 May 2004), The Independent (26 August 2004)
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 135-148, plate, by Kelvin Bray and Alexander Moulton |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/85192094 |
| Code | NA285 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| PB/9/1/101/9 | Royal Society correspondence | 1969 |
| EC/1959/09 | Feilden, Geoffrey Bertram Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/JGRS/8340 | Feilden, Geoffrey Bertram Robert | 1984 |
| IM/GA/GRS/1390 | Feilden, Geoffrey Bertram Robert | nd |
| IM/004223 | Smallpiece Trust | 12 September 1985 |
| MS/917 | Photographs belonging to G B R Feilden from a Royal Society visit to the Academy of Science, Russia | [1960-1965] |