Background
KINGS, Harold Roxbee Cox was born in 1902 in Birmingham. Son of William John Roxbee Cox and Amelia (nbe Stern).
KINGS, Harold Roxbee Cox was born in 1902 in Birmingham. Son of William John Roxbee Cox and Amelia (nbe Stern).
Kings Norton Grammar School, Imperial College, of Science and Technology.
Deputy Director Scientific Research, Ministry of Aircraft Production 1940-1943. Director of Special Projects, M.A.P. 1943-1944. Chair, and Manager Director of Power Jets (Research and Development) Limited.
1944-1946.
Director National Gas Turbine Establishment 1946-1948. Chairman Gas Turbine Collaboration Committee 1941-1944, 1946-1948. Chief Scientist, Ministry of Fuel and Power 1948-1954.
Chairman Civil Aircraft Research Committee 1953-1958.
Director Wilmot Breeden Limited. 60; Chairman Naval Education Advisory Committee 1956-1960.
Chancellor, Cranfield Institute of Technology since 1969. Vice-Chairman Air Registration Board 1959-1966.
Chairman 1966-1972; Deputy Chairman The Metal Box Company 1959-1961, Chairman 1961-1967.
Director Boulton Paul Aircraft Company Limited. 1958-1968, Ricardo and Company Engineers (1927) Limited. 1965-1977, Steel Company of Wales Limited.
1965-1967, Director Dowty Rotol Limited.
1968-1975, British Printing Corporation Limited. 1968-1977, Hoechst, United Kingdom 1970-1975.
Chairman Berger Jenson and Nicholson Limited. 1967-1975, Applied Photophysics Limited.
1972-1981, Landspeed Limited. since 1975, Withers Estates Limited.
1977-1981, Submarine Products Limited. 1978-1982; Chair, of National Council for Technological. Chairman Council for National Academic.
Chairman Cotswold Research Limited. since 1978.
President Royal Aeronautical Society 1947-1949, Campden Food Preservation Research Association since 1961, Royal Institute of Great Britain 1969-1976. Fellow of Imperial College, Thames Polytechnic, Newcastle Polytechnic.
Honorary Doctor of Science (Birmingham University, Cranfield, Warwick University), Honorary Doctorate.Tech. (Brunei University), Honorary Doctor of Laws (Council for National Academic.
Married 1st Marjorie Withers in 1927 (died in 1980). Married 2nd Joan Pascoe in 1982.