Sir Frank
Firstname
Trowbridge
Middle Name
Mason
Surname
Date of Birth
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Date of Death:
1911 - 18
Family
Son of F. Mason of Ipswich. Married Margot Brand of ipswich and they had a son and 2 daughters.
School Record
Head Boy and, at the 1917 Speech Day, was awarded the Jonah Hunt Prize for the boy of greatest promise in the Vth and V1th forms. He then proceeded to take up a Gentleman's Cadetship at the Royal Naval College Devonport.
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Navy
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Service Record
Captain and post warVice Admiral
Campaign Medals
Post War Career
Having received special training as an Engineer under the Selborne-Fisher Scheme, he served with the naval ordnance department. During the War, he served on HMS Excellent, the Royal Navy shore based Gunnery School and was appointed Fleet Gunnery Engineer Officer to the Home Fleet in Scapa Flow and was promoted to Captain (E).
He remained in the Navy and was promoted to Rear Admiral. From 1950 - 52 he held the position of Deputy Engineer-in-Chief of the Fleet. He was then promoted to Vice Admiral (E) in 1953 and was made Engineer-in-Chief of the Fleet. He was appointed CB in 1953 and KCB in 1955.
He was High Steward of Ipswich from 1967, President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1964 and President of the Institute of Marine Engineers in 1988. He was elected to be an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1974. At the time, there were only 27 Honorar fellows including H>. R. H. The Duke of Edinburgh and Barnes Wallis. He was Chairman of the Standing Conference on Schools Science and Technology and, for many years, a Governor of the School. He was also a Governor of Hurstpierpoint College where the new science block, opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1985, is known as the Frank Mason Laboratories.
Burial Information
Additional Information
Obituary OIM No.36 of !988 at page 126.
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