Background
He was born at Cwmcarn, Monmouthshire, and educated at Pontywaun Grammar School, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at Jesus College, Oxford (which elected him to an Honorary Fellowship in 1958).
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Graham Sutton
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Education
Jesus College; Aberystwyth University.
Career
He was Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Wiltshire. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1949. He was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1950.
He was Director-General of the Meteorological Office from 1953 to 1965 and president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1953 to 1955, being awarded their Symons Gold Medal for 1959.
He was knighted in 1955. In 1958 Sutton was invited to co-deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture.
He was Vice-President of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1967. In 1968 he was awarded the prestigious from the World Meteorological Organization.
Membership
Royal Society.
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Died
March 26, 1977 (aged 74)