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Ernest Elliot Buckland Mackintosh, (3 November 1880 – 25 November 1957)MACKINTOSH, Colonel Ernest Elliot Buckland
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officer, engineer, and a Director and Secretary of the

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. He was appointed Director and Secretary of the Science Museum following the retirement of

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in October 1933, and continued in the role until 30 November 1945.

Military career

Mackintosh was educated at

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and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, then commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1899. During the

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he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the

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(DSO) and the French

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. After the war he reached the rank of

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before retiring in 1933. He came out of retirement briefly during the

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to be commandant of the

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, from 1939 to 1940.H. R. Calvert
Colonel E. E. B. Mackintosh
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'', Volume 181, Issue 4601, pages 17–18, 4 January 1958.

Quotations

Publications

* E. E. B. Mackintosh, Special Exhibitions at the Science Museum. ''

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'', Volume 37, 317–327, October 1937. * E. E. B. Mackintosh
Preservation of physical apparatus of historical importance
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'', Volume 19, Issue 10, pages 156–157, October 1942.

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