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GB-2014-WSA-08993 · Person · 1863-1946

HEATH, SIR (HENRY) FRANK, eldest son of Henry Charles Heath, Grove End Road, St. John’s Wood, Middlesex, Miniature Painter to Queen Victoria, and Georgina, dau. of William Woodcock, Brixton, Surrey; b. 11 Dec 1863; adm. 15 Jun 1876 (H); left May 1881; University Coll. London 1884-8, Fellow from 1896; BA London; Strasbourg Univ. 1888-90, Ph.D.; Professor of English, Bedford Coll., London 1890-5; Lecturer in English Language and Literature, King’s Coll. London 1891-5; Assistant Registrar and Librarian, Univ. London 1895-1901, Academic Registrar and acting Treasurer 1901-3; Director of Special Inquiries and Reports, Board of Education 1903-16; joint secretary, Royal Commission on University Education in London 1909-13; Principal Assistant Secretary, Universities Branch, Board of Education 1910-17; CB 19 Jun 1911; KCB 4 Jan 1917; Permanent Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 1917-27; GBE 1927; member Governing Body, Imperial Coll., Univ. London, from 1931; editor, Modern Language Quarterly 1898-1903; contributed chapters to Social England, and joint editor, The Globe Shakespeare; m. 1st, 1892 Antonia Johanna Sophie Theresa, dau. of Friedrich Gottlieb Eckenstein, Canonbury, Middlesex, merchant; m. 2nd, 26 Mar 1898 Frances Elaine, dau. of James Hawkins Sayer, High Barnet, Herts., and Hastings, Sussex, linendraper; d. 5 Oct 1946. DNB Supp.

GB-2014-WSA-08961 · Person · 1919-2003

Hayes, Colin Graham Frederick, son of Gerald Ravenscroft Hayes OBE, musicologist and Admiralty chief cartographer, and Mary Winifred Yule, sculptor, d. of James Yule, jute mer­chant, of Aberdeen; b. 17 Nov. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (H); left July 1938; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1938, BA 1945; RE 1940-5 (Capt.), wounded (Libya) 1942; Ruskin Sch. of Drawing, Oxford, 1945-7, CFA 1947; tutor Roy. Coll. of Art 1949-84, Reader 1974-84, FRCA; a painter; ARA 1963, RA 1970; author of Stanley Spencer 1958, Renoir 1961, Painters on Painting - Rembrandt 1969, Robert Buhler 1987; m. 9 Aug. 1949 Jean Westbrook, d. of Frank Law of Mirfield, Yorks.; d. 1 Nov. 2003.

GB-2014-WSA-08933 · Person · 1913-2011

Hawthorne, Sir William Rede, son of William Hawthorne MICE, consulting electrical engineer, of Ealing, and Elizabeth Curle, d. of John William Greenwood of Dunbar; b. 22 May 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (H); left July 1931; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1931, BA 1934 (1st class hons Nat. Sci. Trip. Pts 1 & 2), MA 1951; Commonwealth Fellow MIT, Mass., USA, 1935-7; devel. engineer Babcock & Wilcox Ltd 1937-9; Min. of Aircraft Production (sci. officer Roy. Aircraft Establish­ment) 1940-4, seconded to Sir Frank Whittle 1940-1; assoc. Prof. of Mech. Engineering MIT 1946-8, Prof. 1948-51; Hopkinson and ICI Prof. of Applied Thermodynamics, Univ. of Cam­bridge, 1951-80; Fellow of Trinity 1951; FRS 1955; CBE 1959, Kt 1970; Home Office Scientific Advisory Council 1967-76; Master of Churchill Coll. Camb. 1968-83; Standing Commn on Energy and the Environment 1978-81; Royal Medal, Royal Society, 1982; Fellow Imp. Coll. Lond. 1983; a Governor of the school 1956-76; a Busby Trustee 1980-; m. 29 Apr. 1939 Barbara, d. of John Cornelius Runkle of Cambridge, Mass., USA; d. 16 Sept. 2011.

GB-2014-WSA-08932 · Person · 1920-2010

Hawthorne, Edward Peterson, brother of Sir William Rede Hawthorne (qv); b. 30 July 1920; adm. May 1934 (H); left July 1939; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1939, rowed against Oxford at Henley 1940, sec. CUBC 1941, BA 1942, MA 1962; Roy. Aircraft Establishment Farnborough 1941-5; MIMechE AFRAeS; C. A. Parsons & Co, Ltd Newcastle 1947-54; Hawker-Siddeley Group 1954-6, man. dir. Hawker-Siddeley Nuclear Power Co. Ltd 1956-60; dir. Technical Development Capital Ltd 1960-5; man. dir. Urwick Technology Management Ltd 1965-75, E. P. Hawthorne Ltd 1975-; m. 8 Nov. 1949 Doreen Margaret, d. of Samuel James Dinsmore, man. director; d. 28 Sept. 2010.

GB-2014-WSA-08929 · Person · 1899-1968

Haworth-Booth, Robin Howard, brother of Michael Haworth-Booth (q.v.); b. Nov. 4, 1899; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (H); left Dec. 1915; joined R.N.A.S. 1917; served in Great War I as fighter pilot in France, Italy, the Aegean and Sth. Russia; Flying Officer R.A.F. Aug. 1, 1919; Flight-Lieut. Jan. 1, 1928; Sqdn.-Ldr. Aug. 1, 1936; Wing-Cdr. July 1, 1939; in command of 57th Squadron R.A.F. in France in Great War II; D.F.C. 1918; fishery officer, Usk River Board, since 1946; m. Nov. 27, 1935, Myrtle Ashburner, only daughter of Major John Henry de Marie Hickle Knight, R.M.L.I., of Rockbourne, Hants; d. 1968.

GB-2014-WSA-08928 · Person · 1896-1986

Haworth-Booth, Michael, son of Digby Clifton Haworth-Booth, of Balcombe, Sussex, by Maude, daughter of Charles Goreham Howard, of Balcombe; b. July 8, 1896; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (H); left Dec. 1913; 2nd Lieut. R. F. A. (Spec. Res.) Aug. 2, 1915; Lieut. May 31, 1918; served in Mesopotamia; became a horticulturist, garden designer and writer on garden­ing for Country Life and other journals; proprietor of Farall Nurseries, Haslemere; recipient of the Lindley and Banksian Medals of the Royal Horticultural Society; author of The Hydrangeas (1950) and other works; m. 1st March 1, 1932, Mabel Arden, daughter of Harry Richard Reginald Bagot, of Sutton Coldfield, Staffs; 2nd July 10, 1947, Frances Cassandra Mary Page­ Turner, only daughter of Harry Sholto Searle Parker, Head Master of Rottingdean School, Sussex, and of Mrs. Page-Turner, who resumed her maiden name after her husband's death; d. 19 May 1986.

GB-2014-WSA-08924 · Person · 1904-1985

Hawley, Hector Hanbury, son of Ernest Hanbury Christian Hawley, of West Brompton; b. Dec. 31, 1904; adm. Jan. 17, 1918 (H); left July 1920; d. Mar. 1985.

GB-2014-WSA-08913 · Person · 1897-1920

Hawkins, Geoffrey Severin Anthony, son of Geoffrey Grahame Hawkins, of Chelsea, by Inga Charlotta Marcelia, daughter of Gustav Adolf Olsen, of Oslo, Norway; b. May 29, 1897; adm. April 29, 1909 (H); left July 1914; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. R. F. A. June 25, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; M.C. June 3, 1918; d. Feb. 17, 1920 from the effects of a motor bicycle accident.

GB-2014-WSA-08912 · Person · 1865-?

HAWKINS, FREDERICK THOMAS CHALMERS, brother of Edgar Goodman Hawkins (qv); b. 28 Oct 1865; adm. 6 Feb 1878 (H, afterwards G); left Nov 1881.

GB-2014-WSA-08911 · Person · 1862-?

HAWKINS, EDGAR GOODMAN, eldest son of Frederick James Hawkins, Birkdale, Lancs., solicitor, and Jane Tolson, dau. of John Howard Hetherington (IGI); b. 26 Sep 1862; adm. 6 Feb 1878 (H); left Dec 1880; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 Jan 1883; BA 1886; MA 1889; medical practitioner, Handsworth, Staffs. (1901 Census); author, Medical Climatology of England and Wales.