Herbert Brian Squire FRS (13 July 1909 – 22 November 1961), was a British

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and Zaharoff

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Biography

Born on 13 July 1909, Squire was educated at

Bedford School :''Bedford School is not to be confused with Bedford Girls' School, Bedford High School, Bedford Modern School, Old Bedford School in Bedford, Texas or Bedford Academy in Bedford, Nova Scotia.'' Bedford School is a public school (English indep ...

and at

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

, where he read

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. After research at the

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, and at the

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between 1932 and 1933, he became a scientific officer at the

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. In 1946 he was appointed as chairman of the

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Committee of the Aeronautics Research Council and, in 1947, he was appointed as principal scientific officer at the

, working on

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. Between 1952 and 1961 he was Zaharoff

. He was elected as a

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of the

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in 1957. Squire died on 22 November 1961.S. B. Gates and A. D. Young, ''Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society'', vol.8, 1962, pp. 119–135

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Squire, Herbert Brian 1909 births 1961 deaths Fluid dynamicists People educated at Bedford School Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford English aerospace engineers Fellows of the Royal Society British aerospace engineers