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Arkell, Denis	29.08.1907 ? St Pancras district, London ? - 05.1986 ? Hendon district, Middlesex ?	T/Civilian Officer ? RAFVR:   Acm. 2nd cl. ? [1883253] (A) P/O (prob) 16.03.1944 [172431] P/O (prob) 11.05.1944 (WS) F/O 11.11.1944 (emgcy list) (reld 10.02.1954; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.)	12.1940 - (10.1943) civil staff, Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty 16.03.1944     commissioned, RAFVR (Administrative and Special Duties Branch)

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Briggs, Frank	07.03.1905 - 08.2002 Torbay district, Devon	Assistant, Grade II (1940) Acting Scientific Officer (1943-1946) BEM 01.01.1941 New Year 41	(1940)     HM Signal School (08.1943) - (04.1946) Admiralty Signal Establishment, Haslemere Post-war he worked for Decca Navigation and had a pilots licence flying between Decca Navigation centres in Europe and UK.
Bruntisfield, 1st Baron, of Boroughmuir (cr. 1942); Sir Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, Bt. (cr. 1715) Son of Sir George John Scott Warrender, 7th Bt KCB, KCVO, and Lady (Ethel) Maud Warrender (died 1945), youngest daughter of 8th Earl of Shaftesbury. Succeeded to father's Baronetcy, 1917. Married 1st (1920) Dorothy (marriage dissolved 1945), youngest daughter of late Colonel R.H. Rawson, MP, and Lady Beatrice Rawson; three sons. Married 2nd (1948) Tania, younger daughter of late Dr M. Kolin, St Jacob, Dubrovnik, Jugoslavia; one son, one daughter.	23.06.1899 St George Hanover Square, London - 14.01.1993	Secretary ? MC 1918 ?	Education: Eton 1917 - 1918 served European War with the Grenadier Guards (MC, Russian Order of St Stanislas, Star of Roumania, St Ann of Russia with sword) 1923 - 1942 Member of Parliament (U), Grantham Division of Kesteven and Rutland (an assistant Whip, 1928-31) 1931 - 1932 Junior Lord of the Treasury 1932 - 1935 Vice-Chamberlain of HM Household 1935 - 1935 Comptroller of HM Household 1935 - 1935 Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to Admiralty 1935 - 1940 Financial Secretary, War Office 1940 - 1942 Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty 1942 - 1945 Parliamentary Secretary, Admiralty
Byng, Robert Cecil	see:	RNVR officers' section

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Clouston, John Collier The Family of Clouston website (possibly)	10.10.1876? - 12.1947?	T/Technical Assistant ? OBE 04.01.1944 New Year 44	(06.1943) - (04.1946) North-East of England region, Regional  Organisation for Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs, Admiralty

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Darbyshire, Jack Son (with one brother and one sister) of Arthur Eric Darbyshire (1894-1960), and Ellen Ann Jones (1893-1976). Married (30.04.1955, Portsmouth Cathedral) Mollie Irving; three sons, one daughter.	27.05.1919 Llanrwst, Maridneth N district - 04.11.2004 Bangor, Caernarvonshire, Wales [Burial of ashes at St. Tysylio (Church Island) Menai Bridge]	T/Experimental Officer > 04.1945, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	Education: BSc 1940, MSc 1949, DSc 1958 Wales. FInstP, FRMetS. (07.1945) - (04.1946) Scientific and Technical Staff at Admiralty Research Laboratory (Teddington, Middlesex) under Scientific Research and Experiment Department, Admiralty Oceanographer. Professor of Physical Oceanography, UNCW, Bangor, 1963.

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Forbes, William Archibald David	(06?).1890 Hackney, Greater London - ?	Assistant Constructor 07.1915 Constructor ? Acting Chief Constructor 1939/40? Acting Assistant Director 1944 (retd > 05.1950, < 05.1953)	07.1915 joined Royal Corps of Naval Constructors (07.1935) - (07.)1937 a Constructor, Naval Construction Department, Admiralty (07.)1937 - (08.1939) a Constructor, HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St Angelo] (04.1940) - (06.)1944 an Acting Chief Constructor, Naval Construction Department, Admiralty (10.)1944 - (05.1950) an Acting Assistant Director, Naval Construction Department, Admiralty MINA

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Goodall, Marcus Campbell Oldest son of E.C. Goodall, and ... Elliott, of London W11. Married (1960) Janet Fauntleroy McKenney; one son, one daughter.	03.03.1914 Kentish Town, St Pancras district, London - 14.09.1999 Shincliffe, Durham Central district, Durham	T/Experimental Officer ? (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)	Education: Uppingham School (09.1927-07.1932; Constables House); Balliol College, Oxford (1932-1935). (08.)1943 - (07.)1945 Admiralty Signal Establishment (in the scientific and technical pools at Royal Fort, Bristol) [appointment possibly mid-1942] Marconi Ltd., Research Department, Essex, 1945-1949. FRGS, 1948. Leverhulme Research Fellow, 1949-1950. Institute for Advanced Studies (Mathematics), Princeton. Research Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, Massachusetts, 1951. Lecturer in Zoology (Biophysics) , University of Michigan, 1953. Research Associate 1956, Staff Member, Research Laboratory of Electronics 1961, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Associate Member, Institute for Biomedical Research, Chicag, 1966. Associate Professor of Biophysics, University of Alabama 1970 (Emeritus Professor 1984). Published: Science and the politician (1965); Science, logic, and political action (1970); Science, survival and the west (2001); numerous papers.
Grimley, William Kenneth	06.02.1912 - 02.1997 Weymouth, Dorset	A/Technical Officer ? Technical Officer ? Senior Scientific Officer (07.1948) Principal Scientific Officer (05.1950) - (01.1956) Senior Principal Scientific Officer (07.1961) - (02.1963) OBE 01.01.1963 New Year 63	16.06.1941 - (08.1942) Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty (02.1943) - (07.1945) Anti-Submarine Materiel Department, Admiralty (07.1948) - (02.1963) Royal Naval Scientific Service (1963) - (02.1969) Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment, Portland, Dorset AMIEE

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Klemantaski, Louis   Married (1955) Ursula Staples Smith.	12.02.1912 Harbin, Manchuria, China - 24.06.2001 Coombe Hay, nr Bath, Somerset	T/Experimental Officer > 01.1945, < 07.1945	Education: Kings College, London. 1939? - 1945? served (not in officer capacity) Miscellaneous Weapon Development Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (07.1945) - (04.1946) Scientific Research and Experiment Department, Admiralty Renowned motor racing photographer. Published: Klemantaski himself (1998); Klemantaski and Ferrari; Klemantaski and Aston Martin. Literature: Gerald Pawle, The secret war (1956).

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Lee, Edward "Ted" Son of Thomas and Florence Lee. Married (1942) Joan Pearson; three daughters (their youngest daughter, Lesley Ronaldson became the first woman professional Real Tennis player and a world doubles champion).	02.03.1914 Lanchester, Durham - 31.12.2001 Weybridge, Surrey	Junior Scientific Officer (04.1940) Scientific Officer (02.1941) - (06.1944) T/Senior Experimental Officer (07.1945) - (04.1946) Principal Scientific Officer (07.1948) Senior Principal Scientific Officer (05.1953)	Education: Consett Grammar School; Manchester University (MSc); Pembroke College, Cambridge (PhD) [built an infrared spectrometer] late 1939 - (04.)1946 Scientific and Technical Staff at Admiralty Research Laboratory, Scientific Research and Experiment Department, Admiralty (initially on loan from Air Ministry) (Teddington, Middlesex) [working on radar & Type F infrared rays recognition system to help Allied pilots distinguish enemy aircraft from their own planes at night] 1946 - 1948 Ministry of Defence 1948 - 1951 Department of Physical Research, Admiralty 1951 - 1955 Admiralty Research Laboratory 1955 - 1958 Director of Operational Research, Royal Naval Scientifice Service, Admiralty 1958 - 1960 Deputy Director, National Physical Laboratory 1960 - 1965 Director, Stations and Industry Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 1965 - 1970 Deputy Controller (R), Ministry of Technology 1970 - 1971 Head of Research Services, Department of Trade and Industry 1971 - 1974 Director, Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington (retired) Governor of Hampton School, and Captain and President of the Home Park Golf Club at Hampton Court.
Lister, Stanley Masterman Son (with one sister and one brother) of Oliver Lister (1865-), and Phoebe Ellen Shuker (1874-). Married ((06?).1935, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire) May Stanley (08.07.1908 - 03.2002), daughter of Harry Stanley (1886-1936), and Florence Casswell (1887-1959); two sons.	(12?).1903 Rotherham district, Derbyshire / Yorkshire - 27.04.1950 The Harwich and District Hospital, Dovercourt, Essex	A/Assistant Armament Supply Officer 1944?	Assistance Clerk, Unemployment Assistance Board, 10.1936. c.1940 - 1944 served (not in officer capacity) with the Admiralty in Bath and Corsham Armaments Depot 04.02.1944 - (07.1945) Armament Depot, Bermuda (04.1946) - (10.1947) Mine Depot, Wrabness (Harwich)

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Mathieson, Wyndham David	27.10.1916 - 04.1991 Mid Devon	T/Technical Adviser ?	(07.1945) - (04.1946) Armament Depot, Melbourne Headquarters
McGrath, Malcolm William Son of William McGrath, and May Parry; ... children (one son?).	(12?).1915 Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside - 1958 ? London ?	Assistant Armament Supply Officer ? A/Deputy Armament Supply Officer 1940 T/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNVR 14.03.1945	10.1934     assigned, Executive Class, Admiralty 10.1934 - (07.)1935 Assistant Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Plymouth 11.1935 - (10.)1936 Assistant Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Plymouth 12.1936 - (07.)1937 Assistant Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Singapore 08.1937 - (08.)1939 Assistant Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Hong Kong 09.1939 - (04.)1940 Assistant Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Bermuda (detached) 22.06.1940 - (02.)1941 acting Deputy Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Dover (12.)1941 - (01.)1945 acting Deputy Armament Supply Officer, Department of the Director of Armament Supply, Admiralty (07.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Portland Bill (maintenance and repair ship)* * indexed, but not listed as such
Moss-Blundell, Henry Seymour Son of late J. Seymour Moss­Blundell. Married (1910) Elizabeth Hilda, daughter of late A.E. Cumberbatch of Great Sarratt Hall, Herts; one son, one daughter.	06.12.1871 - 29.03.1947 Chipperfield, Hertfordshire	T/Civilian Adviser ? CBE 04.06.1917 Trade Division, Admiralty	Education: Rugby; St John's College, Cambridge WW I served (unpaid) in the Trade Division of the Admiralty (02.1941) - (07.1945) Temporary Civilian Adviser on staff of Principal British Naval Liaison Officer to Allied Navies [HMS President] Barrister­at­law; lately Deputy Chairman Herring Industry Board and previously Chief Inspector of Fisheries. LLD.

 

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Turney, Arthur Allin Married ((06?).1917, Eton district, Buckinghamshire) Hilda Constance Halfacre (21.08.1898 - (06?).1982); one daughter, one son.	03.11.1896 Shercock, Bailieborough district, Ireland - (03?).1979 Barnstaple district, Devon	Temp. Experimental Officer ? (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)	WW I     Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery & Royal Engineers Set up in business producing and selling radios for sea-going yachts and schooners. (02.1943) - (07.1945) Admiralty Signal Establishment (Haslemere) (probably involved in D/F work in the Western Approaches) Marine watercolourist.

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Warrender, Sir Victor Alexander George Anthony	see:	Bruntisfield, 1st Baron

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Yeo, Reginald Arthur Son (with two sisters and three brothers) of Henry Yeo (1857-), and Rosa Gates Doe (1867-1932). Married ((09?).1931, Hambledon district, Surrey / Sussex) Beatrice Rose Snelling ((06?).1907 - 1981), daughter (with three brothers and one sister) of Walter Edmund Snelling (1875-1968), and Beatrice Mary Spiers (1879-1952); two daughters, one son.	15.08.1904 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 01.04.1968 Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire	Junior Scientific Officer 02.01.1928 Scientific Officer 01.04.1933 A/Senior Scientific Officer 01.04.1942 Principal Scientific Officer 01.01.1946 Senior Principal Scientific Officer 01.11.1948	Education: Univeristy, London (BSc (Eng) [1st class honours]); ACGI, DIC [for research in telecommunications measurements]. 1920 - 1924 Electrical Apprentice, HM Dockyard Portsmouth 1924 - 1927 City of Guilds College London 1927 - 1928 5 months with Mullard Wireless Services Co. 02.01.1928 - 1944 HM Signal School, Portsmouth 1931 - 1935 research the design, development and use of very short waves range for the navy 1938 - 1944 responsible for the design and development of a high power H.F speech transmitter for the fleet incorporating new methods of frequency generation and modulation 1944 - 1946 Head of Aerial Division, Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment 1947     UK representative at the International Telecommunications & Radio Conference, Atlantic City 01.11.1948     Assistant Director in the Department of Research Programmes and Planning, Royal Naval Scientific Service 1953     UK representative at two conferences concerned with Commonwealth Defence, New Delhi 01.09.1953 - 1956 seconded for 2 years and an extension to Ministry of Supply for duty as Member of HM Ordnance Board and head of Electronics Division Member, Australian Broadcasting Control Board, Melbourne, 20.12.1956-(1962).

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