Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside
Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside OM,
Career
Hinton's career began as graduate engineering apprentice with the Great Western Railway at Swindon. Hinton graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a first class honors degree. Hinton then worked for Brunner Mond, and during WWII, Hinton was seconded to the Ministry of Supply. In 1946, Hinton was appointed Deputy Controller of Production, Atomic Energy, and in 1954 when the Atomic Energy Authority was formed, he was appointed Member for Engineering and Production. Hinton's department was responsible for the design and construction of many of Britain's major nuclear plants, including Windscale, Capenhurst, Springfields and Dounreay. In 1957 Hinton became the first chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board.
Awards and Achievements
- Officer of the
Order of the British Empire 1951 - Fellow of the Royal Society 1954
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1957
- Fellow of Trinity College, 1957
- In 1965 he was made a life peer as Baron Hinton of Bankside, of Dulwich in the County of London.
- President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1966
- Foreign Associate, National Academy of Engineering, 1976
- Order of Merit, 1976
- Chancellor of the University of Bath 1980-83
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