Arthur Stanley Angwin

Sir Arthur Stanley Angwin (born December 11, 1883 in Penzance , England , † April 21, 1959 in Welwyn Garden City , England) was a British radio pioneer . In the 1920s he was responsible for setting up the British shortwave network.

Angwin studied technology at Queen Mary University of London until 1907 , then worked for the British Post, today's BT Group , and worked as a radio operator during the First World War . In 1928, under his leadership at the British Post Office, the radio system was set up on shortwave for wireless telephone connections. During the Second World War he was responsible for maintaining communications links in the British telephone system. In 1947 he took over the management of the 1947 nationalized company Cable & Wireless Communications until 1951 , the forerunner of today's Cable & Wireless , which operated the British state telephone system after the war and was re-privatized in 1979. After 1951 he took over the chairmanship of the Commonwealth Communication Board , where he had to retire in 1956 for health reasons.

In recognition of his services, he was ennobled in 1941 as a Knight Bachelor and in 1945 as Knight Commander in the Order of the British Empire and in 1957 as Knight Commander in the Order of St Michael and St George . He was also awarded the Faraday Medal in 1953 and an honorary doctorate from the Queen Mary University of London.

Angwin was married to Dorothy Gladys. The couple had a daughter and three sons.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Gordon Radley: Angwin, Sir (Arthur) Stanley (1883-1959). Oxford University Press, accessed January 3, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kurt Jäger, Friedrich Heilbronner (Ed.): Lexicon of electrical engineers . 2nd Edition. VDE Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8007-2903-6 , p. 22 .
3. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage