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Harold Bishop (engineer)

Sir Harold Bishop, CBE Sir Harold Bishop CBE (29 October 1900 [ 1 ] – 22 October 1983) was a British broadcasting engineer. He was president of the Institution of Electrical Eng...

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Sir Harold Bishop, CBE

Sir Harold BishopCBE (29 October 1900[1] – 22 October 1983) was a British broadcasting engineer. He was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers for 1953-54.[2][3]

He helped organize broadcasts by SHAEF.[4] He was Chief Engineer at the BBC, where from 1952 to 1956 his title was Director of Technical Services and from 1956 to 1963 Director of Engineering. [5][6]

He was knighted in 1955. [7] In 1966, he presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in South Africa.

Notes

  1. ↑1939 England and Wales Register
  2. ↑Turner, L. W. (22 October 2013). Electronics Engineer's Reference Book. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 9781483161273.
  3. ↑"Obituary: Sir Harold Bishop – Contribution to Broadcasting". The Times. 26 October 1983. p. 14.
  4. ↑Spragg, Dennis M. (1 September 2017). Glenn Miller Declassified. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781612348957.
  5. ↑Briggs, Asa (1995). The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume IV: Sound and Vision. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780192129673.
  6. ↑"Recollections of BBC engineering from 1922 to 1997". BBC. Archived from the original on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  7. ↑"No. 40497". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1955. p. 3257.

References

  • Baker, Anne Pimlott. "Bishop, Sir Harold". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65412.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)