Person Feilden; Geoffrey Bertram Robert (1917 - 2004) Feilden Geoffrey Bertram Robert 1917 - 2004 British Male London, England 20/02/1917 19170220 Painswick, Gloucestershire 01/05/2004 20040501

Engineer 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 Son of Major Robert Humphrey Feilden; married (1946) Elizabeth Gorton (marriage dissolved, 1961); married Diana Angier (nee Lloyd) Royal Society roles: Council: 1962-1963, 1966-1969; VP 1967-1969 Fellow 19/03/1959 42 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 20 Feb 1917 - 1 May 2004 NA285 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/85192094 15e20716-6a5b-42d1-84cb-b266f1dd0674