Warwick Lindsay Scott
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
- ↑ Knights and Dames: RAE-SEK at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
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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 |