NameSir Alfred Charles Glyn “Jack” EGERTON FRS, 7701
Notes for Sir Alfred Charles Glyn “Jack” EGERTON FRS
From Auden Ghosts site (Stanford)
B 11 October 1886 Glyn, Talsarnau, north Wales
Education between 1900 and 1908 (Age 13) Eton College and University College, London
Education 1908 (Age 21) BA in chemistry - University College, London
Marriage Hon. Ruth Cripps - [View Family (F6631)]
11 July 1912 (Age 25)
Note: no children (but one adopted nephew)
Occupation between 1914 and 1918 (Age 27) Worked in the Ministry of Munitions designing explosives and munitions factories
Note: dating approximate
Occupation between 1921 and 1936 (Age 34) Reader in thermodynamics at Oxford University
Occupation 1926 (Age 39) Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Occupation between 1936 and 1952 (Age 49) Professor of Chemical Technology at the Imperial College of Science, London
Occupation between 1939 and 1945 (Age 52) Member of the war cabinet scientific advisory committee
Note: dating approximate
Occupation 1942 (Age 55) Reorganized the British central scientific office in Washington, DC
Occupation 1943 (Age 56) Knighted
Occupation Chemist - specialist in the problems of combustion; see ODNB
Note: mentioned in Noel Annan, 'The Intellectual Aristocracy', in J. H. Plumb, ed., Studies in Social History: A Tribute to G. M. Trevelyan (London: Longmans, Green, 1955), 257
Death 7 September 1959 (Age 72) Mouans-Sartoux, France