Warwick Lindsay Scott
| Warwick Lindsay Scott DSO FSA | |||||||
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| Born | 1892 | ||||||
| Died | 1952 | ||||||
| Occupation |
civil service armed services archaeologist | ||||||
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1938.06.14 nominated and elected forthwith
Notes From Elsewhere
Sir Warwick Lindsay Scott (* 1892 , † June 17, 1952 ) was a British officer and civil servant.
From 1914 to 1919 Scott was involved with the Navy with the clearance of mines. In 1919 he entered 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 government, Scott was appointed Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Ministry under Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook in 1940. As the second secretary of the now Ministry of Aircraft Production, he worked from 1940 to 1946 on the oversight of British aircraft production during the war . In 1942 he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire . [1]
After the war, Scott worked in the Ministry of Supply. He then served as director of the research and development department of Power Jets Ltd, a leading company in the field of development of the then new turbine technology.
Publications
External Publications
Local manufacture of neolithic pottery in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
