Michał Jan Henryk Giedroyc (25 January 1929 – 29 December 2017) was a Polish-Lithuanian aristocrat who later became a naturalised British citizen and aircraft designer. Giedroyc was born on 25 January 1929 in Łobzów, Poland (today Labzova in

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).Michał Jan Henryk ks. Giedrojć
in: M.J. Minakowski: Minakowski's Great Genealogy His father Tadeusz was a politician, since 1938 Polish senator. His mother was Anna Dunin-Szostakowska. In 1940 he and most of the family were deported to a Siberian

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by the Soviet

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after the

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. They escaped to Iran in 1942 and travelled to Britain in 1947. He studied at the University of London and then worked designing aircraft at Vickers Aerospace. He later moved into economic consultancy. He became an expert in the history of

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. His memoirs were published in 2010 as ''Crater's Edge''. His daughters include comedian and television presenter

Mel Giedroyc Melanie Clare Sophie Giedroyc (; , born 5 June 1968) is a British actress, comedian and television presenter. With Sue Perkins, she has co-hosted series including ''Light Lunch'' for Channel 4, ''The Great British Bake Off'' for the BBC and cha ...

and director

Coky Giedroyc Mary Rose Helen "Coky" Giedroyc (; born 6 February 1963) is an English director known for her work on ''Women Talking Dirty'', '' The Virgin Queen'', ''The Nativity'', and ''Penny Dreadful''. Early life Giedroyc was born in Kowloon on 6 Februar ...

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1929 births 2017 deaths Deaths from pulmonary embolism Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom Lithuanian emigrants to the United Kingdom Polish nobility 20th-century Lithuanian nobility 21st-century Lithuanian nobility Aircraft designers Historians of Lithuania British memoirists Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom

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