Harold Bishop (engineer)

Sir Harold Bishop, CBE

Sir Harold Bishop CBE (29 October 1900[1] – 22 October 1983) was a British broadcasting engineer. He was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers for 1953-54.[2][3]

He helped organize broadcasts by SHAEF.[4] He was Chief Engineer at the BBC, where from 1952 to 1956 his title was Director of Technical Services and from 1956 to 1963 Director of Engineering. [5][6]

He was knighted in 1955. [7] In 1966, he presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in South Africa.

  1. ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
  2. ^ Turner, L. W. (22 October 2013). Electronics Engineer's Reference Book. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 9781483161273.
  3. ^ "Obituary: Sir Harold Bishop – Contribution to Broadcasting". The Times. 26 October 1983. p. 14.
  4. ^ Spragg, Dennis M. (1 September 2017). Glenn Miller Declassified. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781612348957.
  5. ^ Briggs, Asa (1995). The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume IV: Sound and Vision. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780192129673.
  6. ^ "Recollections of BBC engineering from 1922 to 1997". BBC. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  7. ^ "No. 40497". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1955. p. 3257.