Harold Bishop (engineer)
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Sir Harold Bishop
CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...
(29 October 1900 – 22 October 1983) was a British broadcasting engineer. He was president of the
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for 1953-54. He helped organize broadcasts by
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. He was Chief Engineer at the
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, where from 1952 to 1956 his title was Director of Technical Services and from 1956 to 1963 Director of Engineering. He was knighted in 1955. In 1966, he presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in South Africa.


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* 1900 births 1983 deaths British electrical engineers Knights Bachelor Alumni of the University of London BBC people Presidents of the Royal Television Society Commanders_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire {{UK-engineer-stub