Stephen Tetlow

Brigadier Stephen John Tetlow MBE (born June 1954) is an engineer and former senior British Army officer.

Tetlow was born in Basford, Nottinghamshire,[1] and was educated at Burton Joyce Primary School and Carlton le Willows Grammar School, where he aspired to be a train driver.[2]

Stephen Tetlow had been promoted to major by 1991, when he had received his MBE.[3] He was then promoted to colonel by 2011, when he dismissed claims put forward by author Tim Blackmore that emerging technology would revolutionize battlespace in the near future - commenting that "conflict is, and will remain, essentially a human activity".[4] Later promoted to Brigadier, he was gazetted to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He was Director of the corps from 2002 to 2005.[5]

After military service, Tetlow became chief executive of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He currently resides in Devon on a County Wildlife Site and has since led an expedition to South Georgia in order to retrace the steps of Ernest Shackleton.[6]

References

  1. "England & Wales, Birth Index, 1916–2005 for Stephen J Tetlow". Retrieved 26 August 2015 via Ancestry.com. (subscription required (help)).
  2. "Honorary Members". Institution of Primary Engineers. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  3. "Supplement to the London Gazette, 13 May 1991" (PDF). Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  4. Blackmore 2011, p. 33
  5. "Profile". EngineeringUK. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  6. "Stephen Tetlow - Institution of Mechanical Engineers". Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 26 August 2015.

Bibliography

  • Blackmore, Tim (2011). War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1442613881. 
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