Alec Julian Tyndale-Biscoe

Between February 1939 and April 1940, Tyndale-Biscoe was employed at the onshore facility identified as "HMS President" with the "Admiralty Department of the Director Aircraft Maintenance and Repair facility". For nearly three years, until February 1943, he was based near Southampton at "HMS Daedalus", another shore-based facility. During this period, there were several promotions, apparently within the naval engineering staff department.^[7]

He played a leading role in the design of the biggest and last battleship to be built for the Royal Navy, HMS Vanguard. Some years later, when UK-based auto manufacturer Standard Motor Company wished to name a new model as the Standard Vanguard, Tyndale-Biscoe was involved in the decision as to whether they should be permitted to do so. With the rank of Rear-Admiral, he was Flag Officer, Reserve Aircraft from 1957 to 1959 (the post of Rear-Admiral, Reserve Aircraft had been abolished in 1956); the Reserve Aircraft sub-command was abolished at the end of Tyndale-Biscoe's tenure, on 17 August 1959, as part of endeavours to concentrate the Fleet Air Arm in the United Kingdom into a smaller number of air stations.^[8][9]

Tyndale-Briscoe was a member, later a fellow, of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.^[10] He was chairman and managing director of Blaw-Knox Ltd, manufacturers of road-paving equipment.^[11][12]

Tyndale-Biscoe was married three times. In 1927, he married Rosemary, daughter of Major Charles Morrison; in 1939, he married Emma, daughter of Henry Haselden, of Egypt; in 1974, he married Elsa, daughter of Arthur Gwynne-James. He had a son and daughter from his first marriage, and four daughters from his second. He lived at Brooklands, Wych Cross, Uckfield, Sussex,^[13] having previously lived at Woodville House, Arbroath, Angus, Scotland.^[14]