Warwick Lindsay Scott

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Sir Warwick Lindsay Scott ( 1892 - June 17, 1952 ) was a British officer and civil servant.

Life and activity

From 1914 to 1919 Scott was involved in the Navy clearing mines. In 1919 he joined the London Colonial Office . In the same year he was transferred to the Air Ministry . There he became head of the personnel department in 1936.

In the Churchill administration , Scott was appointed Deputy Undersecretary of State in the Department of Aviation under Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook , in 1940 . As second secretary of the now Ministry of Aircraft Production (Ministry of Aircraft Production) he was responsible for the supervision of British aircraft production during the war from 1940 to 1946 . In 1942 he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

After the war, Scott worked in the Ministry of Supply. He then held the position of director of the research and development department at Power Jets Ltd, a leading group at the time in the further development of the then new turbine technology.

literature

  • Randolph Churchill, Martin Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill , Companion-Volume V, 1983, p. 553.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knights and Dames: RAE-SEK at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Warwick Lindsay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott, Sir Lindsay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British officer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH 1892
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1952