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] |