Herbert Durkin
Sir Herbert Durkin | |
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Born | 31 March 1922 Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Early and personal life
Sir Herbert was born and brought up in Burnley, Lancashire, attending Burnley Grammar School and then reading Mathematics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He married Dorothy Hope Johnson in 1951, they had a son and two daughters.[1][2]
RAF career
In 1940 during
Appointed to a Permanent Commission in the rank of Flight Lieutenant on 16 September 1948, he worked at the Central Bomber Establishment until 1950. Then while based at the
After attending
In 1967 Sir Herbert became Director of Engineering Policy (RAF) at the
Sir Herbert then took a post as technical adviser to the managing director of Plessey Telecoms, also sitting as a non-executive director on the board of a number of companies. He was President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) from 1980–1, the first Air Marshal to do so.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ a b "Air Marshal Sir Herbert Durkin". Telegraph. 24 April 2004. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ^ a b "DURKIN, Air Marshal Sir Herbert". Who's Who. A & C Black, Oxford University Press. April 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ^ "Air Marshal Sir Herbert Durkin". Air of Authority — A History of the RAF Organisation. www.rafweb.org. Retrieved 17 February 2016.