Sir David Howard Perry, KCB,

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(born 1931) was an English civil servant and engineer. Educated at

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, he became a

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and entered the

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in 1954, eventually becoming head of the Dynamics Division (1971–73) and the Systems Assessment Department (1975–77). Moving to the

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in 1978, he was the

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in 1982,

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from 1983 to 1985 and Chief of Defence Equipment Collaboration from 1985 to 1987.Paul Smith, ''Government and Armed Forces in Britain, 1856–1990'' (London: Bloomsbury, 2010), p. 297. .

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1931 births Living people English civil servants English engineers Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society 20th-century English engineers {{England-engineer-stub