Edward Hefford

Engineer Rear-Admiral Edward Owen Hefford OBE (1871 – 7 August 1955) was a British Royal Navy officer.

Hefford grew up in Dewsbury and Huddersfield.[1] He was educated at Batley Grammar School and then went to the Royal Naval Engineering College at Keyham, Plymouth, in 1886.[1] Becoming a probationary assistant engineer after his training, he was confirmed in the rank of assistant engineer on 12 October 1892.[2] He was promoted to engineer on 7 August 1896,[3] later becoming an engineer lieutenant when engineering officer ranks were standardised with those of line officers. He was promoted to engineer commander on 1 June 1908,[4] appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1919 New Year Honours for his service in the First World War,[5] and promoted to engineer captain on 13 December 1919.[6] From 1921 to 1923 he was chief engineer of the Royal Navy base[7] and president of the Allied Dockyard Commission in Constantinople and from 1924 to 1925 he was engineer overseer for the Royal Navy's London District. He was promoted to engineer rear-admiral on 15 July 1925 and retired the following day.[8]

Hefford was also a keen cyclist and a prominent member of the Cyclists' Touring Club. He was chairman of the council in 1947 and a vice-president in 1953. He married Mary Catherine Taylor in 1902; they had two daughters. Mary died in March 1955 and Hefford himself died in a nursing home in Paignton, Devon, on 7 August 1955.[1]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 Obituary, The Times, 10 August 1955, p.11.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 26334. p. 5740. 14 October 1892.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 26767. p. 4573. 11 August 1896.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 28143. p. 4168. 5 June 1908.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 31099. p. 112. 1 January 1919.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 31791. p. 2189. 24 February 1920.
  7. ↑ "Naval Officers' Courses", The Times, 7 January 1924, p.6.
  8. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 33071. p. 5133. 31 July 1925.
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