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Lindsay Bryson
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Admiral Sir Lindsay Sutherland Bryson KCB FRSE FREng FRAeS (22 January 1925 – 24 March 2005) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer who went on to be Controller of the Navy.[2]
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Early life and education
The son of James McAuslan Bryson (died 1976) and Margaret Whyte (died 1946),[3] Bryson was born and raised on a Glasgow council estate,[4] and was educated at Allan Glen's School.[5] He took a first class honours BSc degree in electrical engineering as an external student of the University of London.[6][7]
Naval career
Bryson joined the Royal Navy in 1942.[8] He served during World War II as an engineering cadet.[8] He commanded the naval engineering training school, HMS Daedalus, and then led the Royal Navy's guided weapons programmes from 1973.[8] He was promoted to vice admiral on 6 July 1979,[9] and appointed Controller of the Navy in 1981 and served in that role during the Falklands War.[8] He retired on 11 Jan 1985.[10]
After leaving the navy he served in 1985 as President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers[11] and as president of the Association for Project Management 1991–95.[12] He was Deputy Chairman of GEC-Marconi from 1987 to 1990.[8] He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex and Brighton and Hove in 1989.[13]
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Personal life
In 1951, he married WRNS third officer Averil, daughter of William Thomas Curtis-Willson, MBE[14] president of the Newspaper Society and chairman of the Brighton Herald.[15][16] They had a son and two daughters, one of whom is the actress Ann Bryson.[8] Lady Bryson died in January 2017.[17]
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