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Sir Lindsay Sutherland Bryson (22 January 1925 – 24 March 2005) was a Scottish

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officer who went on to be

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Naval career

The son of James McAuslan Bryson and Margaret Whyte, Bryson was born and raised in

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, where he was educated at

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. Bryson joined the

in 1942. He served during

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as an engineering

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. He commanded the naval engineering training school, HMS ''Daedalus'', and then led the Royal Navy's guided weapons programmes from 1973. He was appointed

in 1981 and served in that role during the

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retiring in 1984. After leaving the Navy he served in 1985 as President of the

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and as president of the

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1991–95. He was Deputy Chairman of GEC-Marconi from 1987 to 1990. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex and

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in 1989.

Family

In 1951, he married Averil Curtis-Willson; they had a son and two daughters, one of whom is the actress

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. Lady Bryson died in January 2017.Bryson
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References

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