Percy Dunsheath
Dr Percy Dunsheath OBE, MA, Chief engineer of W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co of North Woolwich
1886 Born.
Engineering education at Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge, and practical training with Davy Brothers, Sheffield.
1908 Entered Engineer-in-Chief's Office, G.P.O., as Assistant Engineer on telephone, telegraph and power schemes in London and the provinces.
WWI Captain, Royal Engineers, Commanding Telegraph Construction Company in France, erecting main routes; had charge of communications for Independent Air Force operating in Lorraine; compiled "Signal Service Diagrams," a standard technical instruction for the Army signals.
1919 Joined Henley's; reorganised the company's research department.
1929 Appointed research and technical manager
1934 Appointed chief engineer
1937 Elected a director of the company
1945 President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
1946 Retired but continued as a director of the parent company and its subsidiaries Henley's (South Africa) Telegraph Works Company, Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co, and the Holborn Construction Co