Person Edwards; Sir; George Robert (1908 - 2003) Edwards George Robert Sir 1908 - 2003 British Male Woodford Green, Essex, England 09/07/1908 19080709 Guildford, Surrey 02/03/2003 20030302

Aircraft design Education: Local school; South West Essex Technical College; London University, BSc in Engineering Career: Structural engineer in heavy industry, North East of England (1928); Hayes Wharf Company designing and constructing tugs and small river craft; design staff, Vickers (Aviation) Limited, Brooklands, Weybridge under Rex Pierson (1935-1940); experimental manager, Vickers (Aviation) Limited, Brooklands (1940-1948), chief designer (1948-1953); succeded Hew Kilner as Managing Director, Vickers Armstrongs (Weybridge) Limited (1953-1960), appointed to the Board (June 1955); President of Royal Aeronautical Society (1957-1958); awarded United States' Guggenheim Gold Medal for achievement in aeronautics (1959); Managing Director of newly formed British Aircraft Corporation formerly Vickers Armstrongs Limited, English Electric Company Limited and Hunting Aircraft Limited (1960-1963), Chairman (1963-1975); Pro-Chancellor Emeritus of Surrey University (1964-1979); awarded two Gold Medals by the Royal Aeronautical Society (1957), the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts (1971); President of Surrey County Cricket Club (1979-1989); President of the Guild of Aviation Artists; awarded the Curtis Sword for the promotion of Anglo-American aerospace cooperation (1994) Honours: MBE 1945; CBE 1952; Kt 1957; OM 1971 Son of Edwin George Edwards, station master with the Great Eastern Railway at Walthamstow and Mary (nee Freeman); married (1935) Dinah Thurgood (died 1994) Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1974 Fellow 21/03/1968 59 Sources: The Independent (7 March 2003); The Guardian (7 March 2003) gives birthplace as Chingford Obituaries: Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2004 vol 50 pp 73-92 , plate, by Norman Barfield 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 9 Jul 1908 - NA300 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes e72f21ac-c6ba-434e-b571-b8f109c31128