Alwyn Douglas Crow
Sir Alwyn Douglas Crow, CBE, ScD
1894 Born in Brentford[1], son of John Kent and Ethel Crow
1918 Captain Alwyn Douglas Crow, of the Research Department, Woolwich, was awarded the CBE[2]
1923 A civil servant when he married Kathleen Christiana Barraclough in Pimlico[3]
Director of Ballistic Research at the War Office.
1939 Chief Superintendent, Projectile Development Establishment, Ministry of Supply, lived in Sevenoaks with Kathleen C Crow 40[4]
1944 Knighted; he was controller of projectile development, Ministry of Supply[5]
1945 Wrote to Sir Lawrence Bragg that V2 rockets could be used to send scientific instruments into the upper atmosphere; hoped to stage some experiments with V2 rockets in about June; comments on this and suggests Ratcliffe get in touch with Wheeler around 15th June. Will keep Bragg in touch with their plans and ensure the Cavendish Laboratory can collaborate in any programme of trials. Bragg passed the suggestion to Ratcliffe who talked to Crow about it, and about which institutes would be involved.[6]
post-WWII Sir Alwyn Crow, Mr W R J Cooke and Dr. H J Poole made a claim to the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors[7]
1948 Presented the Thomas Hawksley Lecture on "The Rocket as a Weapon of War in the British Forces"
c.1957 Chairman of the Committee on Control of Expenditure in Research and Development Establishments[8]
1965 Died in Washington DC