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 Suggested to Sir Lawrence Bragg that V2 rockets could be used to send scientific instruments into the upper atmosphere; Bragg passed the suggestion to Ratcliffe who talked to Crow about it and 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